BitTorrent

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 or delayed significantly.  

Writes Ernesto on TorrentFreak: In recent weeks the anti-piracy antics of Microsoft have made the news on a few occasions. From censoring The Pirate Bay to funding BitTorrent poisoning startups, the software giant is determined to attack piracy head-on. But perhaps the company should make a start by educating its own employees first. In Microsoft’s offices around the world many company employees are using BitTorrent to download and share...  

Despite the Movie industry’s claim that you cannot compete with free, the growth of legal TV/movie on demand services such as Netflix appears to be killing off BitTorrent’s Internet share in the US, with BitTorrent traffic now just 11.3% during peak ...  

Conversely however, in the US, BitTorrent traffic has been on the decline ... "We see higher levels of P2P filesharing than in many other regions, at least partially due to geographical licensing challenges that restrict the availability ...  

San Francisco-based BitTorrent Inc. says its peer-based “branded products and services are used by ... domains and demands that the German company stop using the BitTorrent namesake. Bram Cohen, a computer programmer, unveiled the BitTorrent ...  

BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the BitTorrent protocol and the world famous uTorrent client, has taken legal action against a company attempting to trade on the company's brand. In a lawsuit against a German-based company calling itself BitTorrent Marketing GMBH, US-based BitTorrent Inc. is claiming damages for trademark infringement, unfair competition and cybersquatting.Source: BitTorrent Inc Takes Legal Action Against Download Scammers  

The Pirate Bay may be getting some support from ISPs in some places, but other BitTorrent sites are not so lucky. With The Pirate Bay already blocked in the country, Italy has now turned its eye on a popular alternative, KickAssTorrents. Unlike in some ...  

My qBittorrent client (for Linux) stalls out far too often and knocks me offline. Why is this happening, and what can I do to fix or mitigate the problem?I'm very new to torrenting, but all this interruption just can't be normal, or no one would be doing it. Please correct (or overlook) any improper vocabulary on my part. I don't have a handle on this stuff yet. When I download a well-seeded torrent for, say, 500 MB file(s), it takes very...  

TheGift73 writes "The Russian based 'Pirate Pay' startup is promising the entertainment industry a pirate-free future. With help from Microsoft, the developers have built a system that claims to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. Their first project, carried out in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures, successfully stopped tens of thousands of downloads. Hollywood, software giants and...  

Actor Wil Wheaton, known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lost and The Big Bang Theory made a few interesting comments on his blog. He says that piracy isn’t as evil as Hollywood claims.believes that Internet providers shouldn’t mess with people’s BitTorrent traffic. “I believe in network neutrality, I don’t believe that [...]  

North Carolina State University assistant professor Robert Hammond monitored prerelease albums being downloaded through BitTorrent and compared the numbers with actual album sales. The investigation is said to have uncovered a direct correlation ...  

We've been following the news of the DDOS attack on Swedish BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay and Wikileaks. Now, ZeroPaid has finally learned who was behind the attack. We have some news just breaking right now. ZeroPaid has learned who was behind the attack of Swedish BitTorrent website The Pirate Bay. The attacker goes by the name Anonymous Nyre - a defector of the online collective Anonymous. A comment was left on PasteBin explaining...  

When the latest alpha version of uTorrent was released earlier this week several users spotted something unusual in the 'about' window. For years the uTorrent client belonged to BitTorrent Inc., but all of a sudden ownership was being credited to an unknown company named Gyre Inc. The uTorrent team was quick to fix this 'coding mistake,' but they couldn't wipe out a trail of evidence suggesting that BitTorrent might rebrand itself in the near...  

Here's the official description of Deluge: "Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux, OS X, Unix and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it's backend and features multiple user-interfaces including: GTK+, web and console. It has been designed using ...  

Robert Hammond studied a year's worth of album sales data, comparing it with file shares via BitTorrent. He found that album sales did better if they became available first as shared files--selling up to 60 more copies a month after their online "release."