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The big news this morning is that the Pirate Bay is closing down their torrent tracker for good. After launching the torrent tracker back in 2003 it quickly became one of the worlds largest Bittorrent trackers on the Internet, with some 25 million peers using the service. The Pirate Bay was launched by a few friends in Sweden and was never supposed to turn into a business, and never really did (probably the ultimate open source project). Despite this success, The Pirate Bay operators today decided to pull the plug and close down the tracker permanently. The evolution of the BitTorrent protocol has made ... Read Full Story

When they think of torrents, most people think only of illegal downloads. But the same file sharing technology can be used for legal distribution of all kinds of content. Today, for instance, the record label Labrador Records is asking fans to share its free summer sample on The Pirate Bay to ease the load on its servers. To show that torrenting isn’t all bad, we’ve rounded up 50+ tools to help you get started on the torrent path, all with totally legal uses. Distribution Sites Of Legal Content BitTorrent - From the makers of the original software, they now offer a mixture of free ... Read Full Story

Sharing is a social activity and hence its there on the internet also. Some forms of sharing files are considered illegal, but lets not discuss about that. Suppose you need a file, it may be a movie, mp3 or some software. Lets take for example, the latest Micheal Moore documentary. Its almost certain that many people already have it on their computers. Torrents are a means for them to share the file so that others on the internet also can download it. Now whats so special about it ? We all can download files from a server, whats the difference when we are using ... Read Full Story

A torrent can stopped downloading because of several reasons. I was sick of tired because of this kind of matters involve with torrents. So I put my concentration about keeping torrents alive finally I got good involvement and fixing this for some extend. In my prior articles I have discussed some of reasons for dead torrents and how bring those alive. Without updating previous ones I thought to write a new article getting connection with previous writings. One of major reason for stop downloading torrents is they are getting deleted from trackers. Some trackers delete torrents after they available for some period of time. ... Read Full Story

On February 16, 2009, a three-years in the making trial against The Pirate Bay will begin in Sweden. What, if any, are the consequences should The Pirate Bay lose the case? In May, 2006, Swedish police raided the offices of The Pirate Bay and seized the BitTorrent tracker’s servers. The site was down for a couple of days, but the bigger news was the arrest of some of people behind The Pirate Bay. Building A Case The Pirate Bay is not only the largest BitTorrent tracker in the world, it’s also the most notorious . There has been no effort to comply with copyright ... Read Full Story