BitTorrent Pirates Want Own Country
In what could be seen as both marketing stunt and ploy for donations, popular Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay has announced intentions to raise money to purchase Sealand, a claimed "sovereign Principality" founded in international waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain.
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17.1.2007 BitTorrent Acceleration Patch 4.7.3
BitTorrent Acceleration Patch description - An innovative plug-in for BitTorrent that boosts your download speed
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13.4.2008 BitTorrent to Remain in Opera Browser
Opera released details of a plan Monday to further integrate BitTorrent capabilities into an upcoming version of its Web browser, saying integrating the technology would allow for faster and more efficient downloads of large files. The move could also anger intellectual property holders however, who see the network as a boon to piracy.
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7.2.2006 BitTorrent Buys uTorrent Application
BitTorrent, the company behind the file sharing protocol of the same name, has used some of the $25 million it recently received from investors to purchase the popular uTorrent application.
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8.12.2006 BIG Comparison of 27 BitTorrent clients
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of BitTorrent clients. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date.
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Why pirated Vista has Microsoft champing at the BitTorrent
As Microsoft Corp. gets ready to launch Windows Vista and Office 2007 to consumers, it claims a formidable new foe it lacked at its last major consumer software launch five years ago: the popular filesharing network known as BitTorrent. This third-generation peer-to-peer (P2P) service, already used by tens of millions of Internet users to swap digital music and movies for free, is becoming a popular mechanism for those looking to obtain pirated software.
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26.1.2007 BitFox Adds BitTorrent Support to Firefox
BitFox is a Firefox extension that aims to make downloading torrents as simple as downloading a file over a HTTP or FTP connection.
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26.2.2007 Windows DRM Not Up To Snuff, Claims BitTorrent Founder
"We are using Windows DRM because it is the only solution that has been vetted widely, but we are not happy with how it affects playback," says BitTorrent's Bram Cohen.
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20.3.2007 Authorities Order BitTorrent Pirate to Move from Ubuntu Linux to Windows
Scott McCausland, aka sk0t has seen better times, but as it appears, he is all out of luck lately. For McCausland it all went downhill with an illegal download of Star Wars: Episode III over a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
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25.8.2007 Microsoft tweaks IE 7 for performance
Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7's phishing filter ahead of the company's regular patching schedule, which occurs on the Tuesday of every month.
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8.2.2007 Three Really Cool Vista Visual Tweaks
Andreas Verhoeven has released three really great Windows Vista tweaking applications, designed to improve some of the visual decisions Microsoft made in Vista without much effort on your part.
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4.9.2007 Windows 7 to get parallel-processing tweaks
Microsoft has shared bits and pieces of how it is adding new features to its development tools to better support parallel processing.
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30.9.2008 Gartner: Vista antitrust tweaks to take years
Antitrust related changes to security in Windows Vista 64-bit will take years to complete and will cause compatibility trouble in the interim, according to Gartner.
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23.10.2006 Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house
On July 1, Microsofts new fiscal year started with a new slate of Live executives or at least a bunch of existing execs with new titles and responsibilities.
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8.7.2007 10 top Vista tweaks part 2
As I noted in the first installment of this series, some of my favorite productivity-enhancing techniques dont involve custom code or registry edits.
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18.6.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience
You may ask yourselves, why should this article be any different from all those tweaking tutorials around the Internet or, better yet, why should you read this when you can install a program that does it all for you?
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23.10.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience VI
The moment has come once again to pimp your Windows XP with the skills of a power user and the tool that will always be at your disposal, Notepad. This article, along with the previous ones, will allow you to enhance and customize your operating system with advanced IT knowledge.
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29.11.2008 10 expert tips and tweaks for Windows Vista RC2
Click on the links for the full tweak
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30.10.2006 12 Tweaks - Squeeze Every Last Drop of Performance Out of Windows Vista
Windows Vista is a resource hog. Microsofts latest operating system will swallow every last bit of hardware resources you throw at it in the race for a top user experience, a concept synonymous with high performance.
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15.9.2007 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part II
Allow me to start this article by recommending you read (if you havent already) the first part of this tweaking series, as it sets the ground rules that must be followed in order to get the job done right.
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24.10.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part III
Welcome back to the registry optimization saga! If youre just joining us, please start by reading at least our first episode, which describes a few rules that must be followed in order for the optimization process to take place successfully...
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25.10.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part V: Desktop Icons
Once again, it's time to enhance your Windows XP operating system exactly the way you want and without paying a cent on expensive programs that do something so simple that even a kid could handle it.
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26.11.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part IV: Display Properties
Welcome to yet another episode of our Microsoft Windows XP tweaking saga. If you're not familiar with the procedure, please start by reading the first article in the series, so as to fully understand how exactly you should use the lines below and how to run the tweaks.
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12.11.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part VIII: Add or Remove Programs
In part eight of the our tweaking series well go through a few Control Panel optimizations for Windows XP power users that may not interest most people using their operating system for basic tasks.
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26.12.2008 First Microsoft Genuine Office Validation Download on Download Center
Microsoft has posted the first Office download which has Genuine Office Validation (not required yet). It is sounds.exe the download enables sound in Office 2000,XP and 2003.
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28.4.2006 Download Windows 7 MUI Language Packs - Official 32-bit and 64-bit Direct Download Links
Microsoft has released MUI (Multilingual User Interface) language packs for Windows 7 RTM. The Windows 7 language packs is available via Windows Update as optional update for Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise editions only.
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28.8.2009 Download Firefox 1.0.7
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Download Fasterfox 0.7.9
Prefetch Links - Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with Firefox's unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.
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Skype 2.0 download
Everybodys favourite free PC-calling software has just reached version 2.0. Skype now comes with free video calling (assuming two existing webcams) but also updates its older features.
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7.1.2006 WindowBlinds 5 download
Customize the look and feel of Windows XP with WindowBlinds. It's a Windows utility that enables users to personalize nearly every aspect of the Windows graphical user interface. It can "skin" your title bars, push buttons, Start bar, radio buttons, and nearly every other part of Windows.
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8.1.2006BitTorrent DNA Vulnerable to Remote Hijack
A recent reports suggests that the BitTorrent DNA, which is bundled with the mainline client, is an exploitable version of uTorrent without the user
interface. It is suggested that it is possible for any websites to offload content to the btdna.exe, without the users consent.
BitTorrent DNA is used for p2p streaming of online videos. It works like this; the user who wants to watch a stream has to install the BitTorrent
DNA application, which is also bundled with the BitTorrent mainline client. When the user plays a BitTorrent accelerated stream it will not only
download data, but also upload it to other people who are watching the same stream, similar to a regular BitTorrent download.
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03.01.2008BitTorrent Buys uTorrent Application
BitTorrent, the company behind
the file sharing protocol of
the same name, has used some
of the $25 million it recently
received from investors to
purchase the popular uTorrent
application. uTorrent is one
of the top BitTorrent download
programs for Windows...
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08.12.2006BitTorrent 6.0 Beta Available
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer
protocol for distributing
files. It makes use of the
upstream bandwidth of every
downloader to increase the
effectiveness of the
distribution as a whole, and
to gain advantage on the part
of the downloader. On average,
the faster you upload to your
peers, the faster you will be
able to download.
"The new BitTorrent 6.0
Beta brings together
BitTorrent's proven expertise
in networking protocols with
µTorrent's efficient
implementation and compelling
UI to create a better
BitTorrent client. As we
continue to develop this new
client, we'll be focused on
innovative ways to simplify
and improve the BitTorrent
user experience."
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26.07.2007BitTorrent Goes Legal with Download Service
In its continuing effort to
move away from its roots as a
popular method for the
decentralized transfer of
pirated content, BitTorrent
said Monday it had launched a
new content network with the
help of several television and
movie studios...
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26.02.2007BitTorrent Partners with Consumer Electronics Manufacturers
Today, BitTorrent, Inc. has
announced a collaborative
effort with a number of
hardware manufacturers to
promote BitTorrent-embedded
consumer products. Consumer
electronics manufacturers are
starting to integrate the
BitTorrent platform into their
products to ensure a fast and
seamless download experience
for their customers.
ASUS, Planex and QNAP are
among the first CE
manufacturers to implement the
BitTorrent download manager
into their digital home
devices. Products include
wireless routers, media
servers and network attached
storage (NAS) devices. A
BitTorrent-based router will
enable users to connect to the
Internet, schedule and
download files all without the
need for a traditional PC to
be used.
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23.10.2006BitTorrent Admin Gets 5 Months in Jail
The first conviction related
to the BitTorrent file-sharing
network has been handed down,
with a 23-year-old Virginia
man sentenced to five months
in prison plus five months
home detention for his
involvement in a BitTorrent
node...
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27.10.2006BitTorrent and MPAA reach
agreement: Service will take
down links to
"illegal" content
Bram Cohen, the
creator of BitTorrent, and the
Motion Picture Association of
America (MPAA) have agreed on
a deal where copyright
protected content will not be
linked to on the
[url]www.bittorrent.com
website. The site will no
longer host links to illegal
content from the seven major
studios of the
MPAA.
The
BitTorrent protocol was
invented just a few years ago
by Bram Cohen and since then
has become one of the most
popular peer-to-peer programs
in existence. According to
some estimates, BitTorrent
traffic accounts for an
astounding 35 percent of all
Internet traffic. Some
universities and ISPs have
even banned the
protocol.
Unlike
traditional downloads where
many people download from one
server, BitTorrent
decentralizes downloads by
making everyone share the
burden of uploading. Files are
downloaded as a number of
small chunks which are then
dished out to other computers.
Transfers start off slowly,
but speed up tremendously over
a few minutes...
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23.11.200550% Of All BitTorrent Downloads are TV-Shows
Reports show that 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time do so to download TV-series, quite an impressive number. In total,
over a billion TV-shows are downloaded every year, and this number continues to rise.
It is safe to say that BitTorrent is slowly
replacing Tivo. Some episodes of popular TV-shows such as Lost, Prison Break and Heroes get up to 10 million downloads per episode, spread over
hundreds of sites. This number is getting awfully close to the average number of viewers on TV in the US. However, the major difference is that the
BitTorrent viewers come from all over the world.
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14.02.2008BitTorrent Optimized Microprocessor Announced
BitTorrent continues to expand
beyond the computer. Today,
the Taiwanese company IAdea
announced that BitTorrent
optimized microprocessors will
become available soon. This
makes it relatively easy to
add BitTorrent support to
other consumer electronics
devices.
The
microprocessor will enable
hardware manufacturers to
create devices that directly
download .torrent files, and
play files that are downloaded
over BitTorrent. This is one
step further in simplifying
BitTorrent, and incorporating
it in non-PC hardware.
John Wang, CEO of IAdea
Corporation and developer of
the new chip said in a
response, "This new service
architecture is infinitely
scalable, delivers faster as
more users join, and can be
built at a fraction of the
cost of a traditional server
farm. We see this trend
emerging as Web 3.0′
where each consumer becomes
part of a universal content
storage and delivery system.
Our new chip plays part in the
new paradigm by making
BitTorrent available
efficiently and economically.
You should not be surprised if
you find your next car or
cellphone enabled with our
technology."
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11.01.2007BitTorrent Continues to Dominate Internet Traffic
A recent analysis of the latest P2P trends wordwide shows that BitTorrent is still the most popular filesharing protocol. BitTorrent traffic is still
on the rise and responsible for 50-75% of all P2P traffic and roughly 40% of all Internet traffic.
BitTorrent Continues to
Dominate Internet TrafficP2P traffic stats always cause quite a bit of controversy. In 2004 several respectable sources were reporting that BitTorrent
was responsible for 35% of all internet traffic. This was probably a huge overestimation at the time, today this figure sounds more realistic.
Ipoque reports in a preview of their 2007 P2P survey that BitTorrent is generating between 50-75% of all P2P traffic. P2P traffic is
responsible for 50%-90% of all Internet traffic which means that BitTorrent traffic is generating somewhere between 25% and 65% of all Internet
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02.09.2007BitTorrent Gets $8.75 Million
Backing
BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer
technology that has become one
of the most popular methods
for sharing files, has landed
$8.75 million in funding,
according to reports. Venture
capitalist firm DCM-Doll
provided the cash infusion and
intends to bring BitTorrent to
Hollywood's doorstep...
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28.09.2005BitTorrent, Hollywood Reach
Piracy Deal
BitTorrent and the MPAA struck
a deal on Tuesday that may
prevent future legal action
against the file sharing
network, and will make it
tougher for users to find
feature films through the
service. Technology will be
added on bittorrent.com to
remove content that is owned
by the studios that make up
the MPAA...
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23.11.2005BitTorrent 5.0.1
BitTorrent gives you the same
freedom to publish previously
enjoyed by only a select few
with special equipment and
lots of money. ("Freedom of
the press is limited to those
who own one" -- journalist
A.J. Liebling.) You have
something terrific to publish
- a large music or video file,
software, a game or anything
else that many people would
like to have. But the more
popular your file becomes, the
more you are punished by
soaring bandwidth costs. If
your file becomes phenomenally
successful and a flash crowd
of hundreds or thousands try
to get it at once, your server
simply crashes and no one gets
it.
Currently
there's no changelog
available, but expect this to
be a maintenance release.
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18.11.2006The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent
The guys from The Pirate Bay are always working on interesting side-projects, but there is one in particular that’s so significant, it might be
the future of filesharing. For a while now, they have been working on a brand new protocol - which may come to replace BitTorrent in the near future.
Why a new protocol? Well, the current BitTorrent protocol is developed and maintained by BitTorrent Inc. This company, founded by BitTorrent inventor
Bram Cohen, recently decided to close the source of some newer additions to the protocol. According to The Pirate Bay, this gives them too much power
and influence.
Another reason for a new and improved protocol is the massive number of spammers and anti-piracy organizations that abuse
the BitTorrent protocol, either to make money or to bust people who download infringing material. The new protocol will be designed with these
potential problems in mind. The protocol will most likely use the .p2p file extension compared to the .torrent extension BitTorrent uses right now.
The good thing is that the .p2p files will be backwards compatible which should ensure a smooth transition from .torrent to .p2p files.
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31.10.2007D-Link, Netgear team up with BitTorrent
The two companies have joined BitTorrent Device Partners, a licensing program aimed at creating devices that work with the file sharing service...
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08.01.2008BitTorrent un-finances to the tune of $17 million
The gains of early summer are ghosts by winter for BitTorrent, which has both renegotiated its recent Series C round of financing and re-valued the
company...
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16.12.2008Comcast opens up negotiations with BitTorrent on bandwidth
In a surprise announcement, the BitTorrent and Comcast will partner to address issues of network management and architecture, as well as content
distribution...
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27.03.2008BitTorrent to Crackdown on
Trademark Use
In an effort to clean up its
image, BitTorrent creator Bram
Cohen is now looking into a
plan that would begin to clamp
down on the hundreds of sites
and software programs using
the trademark without
permission...
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08.02.2006Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic
Afraid of excessive bandwidth
usage, ISPs have been
throttling BitTorrent traffic
for almost two years now.
While most ISPs simply limit
the available bandwidth for
BitTorrent, Comcast has now
taken it one step further, and
is actively preventing its
customers from seeding, if the
latest user reports are to be
believed. Comcast is not alone
in this: Canadian ISPs Cogeco
and Rogers use similar methods
on a smaller scale. These more
aggressive throttling methods
can't be circumvented by
simply enabling encryption in
a BitTorrent client, as
Comcast is reportedly using an
application from Sandvine to
throttle BitTorrent traffic;
the application apparently
breaks every (seed) connection
with new peers after a few
seconds if it's not a Comcast
user, making it virtually
impossible to seed a file,
especially in small swarms
without any Comcast users.
Although some users report
that they can still connect to
a few peers, most of the
Comcast customers chiming in
have seen a significant drop
in upload speed.
Sandvine's throttling works
like this: a few seconds after
one connects to a peer in the
BitTorrent swarm, Sandvine
sends a peer reset message
(RST flag) and the upload
immediately stops. Most
vulnerable are users in a
relatively small swarm where
one only has a few peers to
which to upload. However, only
seeding seems to be prevented,
as most users are able to
upload to others while the
download is still going; once
the download is finished,
though, the upload speed drops
to 0.
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18.08.2007BitTorrent begins its seismic shift away from TCP
In an effort to ease the burden its traffic puts on the Internet at large, BitTorrent has announced that it'll use uTP, not TCP, as the transport
protocol in its next uTorrent client...
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