Posted July 9, 2012, 2:00 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
The company behind the popular torrent downloading software uTorrent has announced a new project called BitTorrent Torque, an alpha release set of tools that can be run from HTML5-compliant web browsers like Google Chrome, turning them into a fully-fledged file-sharing hub.
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Posted May 30, 2012, 5:30 PM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
Kim Dotcom, the founder of the now-defunct file-sharing service Megaupload scored a minor yet important victory yesterday, after a New Zealand Judge ruled that the U.S. Government must hand over the evidence they have against Megaupload so Kim Dotcom and…
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…
Posted January 13, 2012, 10:07 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web
Following a decision to shut down its tracker in November 2009, file-sharing titan The Pirate Bay now says it is completely abandoning .torrent downloads a month from now and instead will only provide so-called magnet links. Although little will change…
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