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The Hidden Tracker – Anonymous tracker anyone?

The Hidden Tracker. It sounds promising already, right? Well, delving further into the project won’t diminish that. With all of the pending court ordeals and corporate sales going on for The Pirate Bay, its future is quite vague at best. Will the ship sink – or get outfitted with all sorts of new weaponry through legal means? [...]

Tags: anonymous, hidden tracker, open bittorrent, p2p, peer2peer, tor, torrent

NIN Launches BitTorrent Tracker for New Release

Trent Reznor, the frontman of Nine Inch Nails has always been pro-filesharing and admitted to downloading music using BitTorrent. Unlike others in the music biz, the NIN members are no stranger to BitTorrent. “We use torrents ourselves, and we know that most NIN fans are tech-savvy and familiar with file-sharing, so we want to experiment [...]

Tags: music, torrent

TorrentFreak TV Episode 2

A little later than expected, but the second episode of TorrentFreak TV has finally arrived. The show is still in Beta, so comments and suggestions are welcome. ‘TorrentFreak TV’ is a biweekly recap of some of the best, most interesting or remarkable stories from the wonderful world of BitTorrent. The episode can be downloaded from Mininova as [...]

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VIPeers Intoduces Free BitTorrent Hosting

Today, VIPeers has launched a new and totally free BitTorrent hosting service. With VIPeers, everyone can easily share large files up to 5 GB with as many people as they wish, without having to seed it themselves. The service can be best described as a mashup between one-click hosting sites like Rapidshare and BitTorrent. Although millions [...]

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The Pirate Bay Tops 20 Million Peers

The Pirate Bay has reached yet another milestone. Today, they track more than 20 million unique peers for the first time since the site was launched. It is estimated that the Pirate Bay tracks more than half of all BitTorrent users at any given point in time. By November 2007, The Pirate Bay was tracking around [...]

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Chinese State Bans Video Sites, Huge eDonkey Site Survives

The Chinese government has stepped in and banned 10 video sites, while giving warnings to 17 others. The sites were accused of ‘regulations violations’ ranging from running a service without authorization, through to displaying violent or horrific content. None of the charges relate to piracy, even though one of the sites is China’s biggest eDonkey [...]

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Pirate Bay Talk: How To Dismantle a Billion Dollar Industry

Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij gave a keynote speech at the Hack In The Box Security Conference 2008, entitled “How to dismantle a billion dollar industry – as a hobby.” The two discuss how The Pirate Bay grew to be the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, and some of the challenges [...]

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Lawyers Forced to Drop P2P ‘Wireless Defense’ Case

A married couple with a combined age of 120 have been accused by UK games lawyers Davenport Lyons of pirating an Atari game, and faced demands for over £500. However, the shocked couple enlisted the help of a popular consumer magazine, and unsurprisingly, the lawyers have backed down. No matter how many times it gets said, [...]

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Use BitTorrent to Upgrade to Ubuntu ‘Intrepid Ibex’

Ubuntu, the open source GNU/Linux based operating system, is about to release its next big update – Intrepid Ibex. In the past, the update servers would crash very quickly on a big release day, making it hard for people to get the latest update. With BitTorrent, however, this can be easily avoided. Most users of Linux [...]

Tags: torrent, Ubuntu

P2Pnet Wins Landmark ‘Hyperlinking” Case

The file-sharing oriented news website, P2Pnet, has won its case against the Canadian businessman Wayne Crookes. The Supreme Court ruled that linking to defamatory material doesn’t constitute as publishing. Since the case is about linking, the outcome will have implications for all websites on the Internet, including BitTorrent sites. Wayne Crookes, a former Green Party organizer, [...]

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