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US BitTorrent traffic decline credited to legal alternatives
- BitTorrent usage is on the decline in the US largely as a result of consumers having access to legal online content options. This trend isn’t echoed in other parts of the world where access to legal content is either restricted…
Microsoft-funded 'Pirate Pay' takes aim at BitTorrent piracy
- A Russian startup called Pirate Pay — in allusion to the notorious file-sharing site — has reportedly created a way to attack “BitTorrent swarms,” or groups of computers hosting content, making it hard for them to share files. Apparently the…
Judge rules IP addresses aren't enough to incriminate pirates
- Judge Gary Brown, a federally-appointed magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York, recently ruled that an IP address is no more able to identify wrong-doers than a telephone number can be used to…
Avast most widely used antivirus, uTorrent most popular P2P utility
- According to Opswat, a software development company based in San Francisco, Avast continues to be the world's preferred antivirus. Avast was found on more than 16 percent of computers worldwide. For the past few years, Avast has topped the survey (pdf),…
The Pirate Bay's registrar, Binero confirms site is under second investigation
- According to the Pirate Bay’s Swedish domain registrar, Binero, the world famous torrent site is being investigated by the Swedish authorities after they received requests to release the personal details of the person who registered the site’s new .se domain…
Dropbox meets BitTorrent: Space Monkey unveils hybrid cloud/local storage solution
- Space Monkey has announced a new hosted cloud storage service that puts the cloud in your house. The company says the new product is a hybrid of Dropbox, Pogoplug and BitTorrent and will be available for considerably less money than…
Torrent search engine BTJunkie voluntarily shuts down
- BTJunkie, one of the top five BitTorrent search engines, has decided to close its doors voluntarily after 7 years in operation. The move comes amid growing pressure from authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere, who recently took legal action against…
The Pirate Bay launches project to promote artists
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Although it's condemned by the media industry for providing access to illegal content, there is a positive side The Pirate Bay. If nothing else, the world's largest torrent site can shine a spotlight on little-known artists, allowing them to rise from obscurity and ascend to stardom...
Witcher 2 developer apologizes for pay-or-else scheme
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More than a year after announcing its legal assault against pirates of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, developer CD Projekt Red is rethinking its approach. In November 2010, the studio said it was prepared to track and threaten folks allegedly caught torrenting The Witcher 2...
BitTorrent launches free personal file-swapping service
- BitTorrent just released a new cloud storage and file-sharing service that's set to rival YouSendIt, MegaUpload and the like. Simply called "Share", the new service combines BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology with Amazon's EC2 and S3 to store any type of file…
Trivia Tuesday: Some facts about BitTorrent
- Torrenting is perhaps one of the favorite ways for internet users to download copyrighted material for free. It involves downloading a .torrent file and loading it into a torrent program, which then finds users around the internet (thanks to "trackers") who…
BitTorrent downloads linked to RIAA and DHS
- The recent launch of www.youhavedownloaded.com has been attracting an ever-increasing audience as internet users scramble to see what publicly available data is stored against IP addresses they use. For those guilty of piracy the site offers a disturbing insight into…
Netflix represents 32.7% of North America's peak Web traffic
- Despite losing 800,000 members, Netflix still accounts for a whopping 32.7% of all North American peak fixed access downstream traffic, according to Sandvine's fall 2011 Global Internet Phenomena Report. That's up nearly 10% since spring 2011 and almost double the…
MLab study shows most and least BitTorrent friendly ISPs
- Back in 2009 Google and a group of partners formed the Measurement Lab, an open project of distributed servers meant to help researchers gauge just how well an internet connection is working and help customers determine if their ISP is…
Skype flaw can reveal users' identity, location, filesharing habits
- Security researchers have revealed vulnerability that could allow an attacker to identify a person, track their location and monitor their filesharing habits. In a paper titled "I Know Where You are and What You are Sharing: Exploiting P2P Communications to…
BitTorrent updates Mac clients, iPad gets remote makeover
- BitTorrent has announced new stable version of its µTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline clients for the Mac, bringing their feature set closer to their Windows counterparts with support for RSS feeds and Smart Feed subscriptions, scheduling, and more. One of the major new…
First BitTorrent certified TV announced, more devices coming
- Turkish HDTV manufacturer Vestel has announced the world's first Bittorrent certified HDTV, which will allow users to download, share and playback media files directly from their Internet connected television set. Not much is known about the device itself, except that…
Over 200,000 BitTorrent users sued for file sharing in the U.S.
- The number of copyright infringement lawsuits in the United States against BitTorrent users seems to be accelerating at a phenomenal pace. In January we reported that almost 100,000 users were being targeted using the pay-up-or-else scheme, but a new statistic…
Judge: Over 99% of 'Expendables' pirates are untouchable
- US District Court Judge Robert Wilkins has all but dismissed the massive piracy case brought against some more than 23,000 alleged infringers. In early May, the now infamous US Copyright Group (front name for the law firm Dunlap, Grubb &…
BitTorrent to launch paid version of uTorrent
- BitTorrent today announced that it will launch a premium client called µTorrent Plus this fall. The new client will be aimed at those who are looking for extra convenience and powerful new features.
Researchers develop rules to improve BitTorrent download speeds
- Researchers at Delft University of Technology are proposing a new set of rules that significantly improve BitTorrent download speeds. The Tribler project has put together a new Superior Seeding Standard, inspired by the ratio-enforcement policies at private tracker communities.
Happy Birthday: BitTorrent turns 10 today
- Programmer Bram Cohen began designing the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol in April 2001. On July 2, 2001, he posted the following Yahoo Groups message: "My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order, check it out here -http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/." Today, the…
BitTorrent releases stable version of uTorrent 3.0, offers uChat app
- BitTorrent has released version 3.0 of its minimal client. After eight betas (the first one was released in April 2011), and thanks to 4 million users helping test them, µTorrent 3.0 is now available. You can download it directly for Windows.
BitTorrent partners with its first author
- BitTorrent has announced that it has partnered with its first author. That's right: the company wants to make sure its platform can be used for legally distributing books too.
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