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House of Representatives ban Spotify claiming P2P security concerns

House of Representatives ban Spotify claiming P2P security concerns
  • Posted February 4, 2013, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Members of the House of Representatives appear to have some quiet days ahead as officials have banned the use of streaming music service Spotify while on the job. Despite the fact that Spotify isn’t a peer-to-peer file sharing program like…

BitTorrent says upcoming uTorrent update will feature ads

BitTorrent says upcoming uTorrent update will feature ads
  • Posted August 13, 2012, 10:08 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Industry News
  • Popular torrent client uTorrent has gone through significant changes since it was acquired by BitTorrent in 2006. Launched in September 2005 as a minimalist, resource-friendly and free application for downloading torrents, is has evolved over the years to do far…

Boxopus pushes torrent downloads directly to your Dropbox, skips desktop clients

Boxopus pushes torrent downloads directly to your Dropbox, skips desktop clients
  • Posted June 25, 2012, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software
  • Update: Well, that didn't take long. Dropbox has banned Boxopus over piracy concerns.

The Pirate Bay will stop serving .torrent files, switch to magnet links only

The Pirate Bay will stop serving .torrent files, switch to magnet links only
  • 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…

BitTorrent launches free personal file-swapping service

BitTorrent launches free personal file-swapping service
  • Posted January 6, 2012, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
  • 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…

First BitTorrent certified TV announced, more devices coming

First BitTorrent certified TV announced, more devices coming
  • Posted September 2, 2011, 3:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web
  • 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…

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