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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story
With a verdict expected in the “spectrial” of The Pirate Bay next week, the site isn’t exactly keeping a low profile. In fact it appears to be almost mocking the organizations and companies which brought the criminal case against it.
IPREDator Launches
A couple of weeks ago we talked about IPREDator , a new VPN service being rolled out by The Pirate Bay on April 1. The service enables users to continue to download whatever they want from the site, copyrighted or otherwise, while... Read Full Story
I have found a very intresting and user friendly program for making a good ratio in torrent site.The software is greedytorrent.The torrent site such as bitme,elbitz,demonoid,desitorrents and every site which need invite to register always ban their user if they have a share ratio less than 0.5%.Now with the introduction of this software their will be stop banning of user for share ratio. GreedyTorrent is implemented as a proxy for the BitTorrent tracker protocol. Once installed, it sits in... Read Full Story
Written by Ernesto
2008 is nearing its end, time to make a list of the top 10 BitTorrent sites that got the most traffic this year. The Pirate Bay is out in the lead followed by Mininova and isoHunt. TorrentSpy shut down earlier this year and is the most notable absentee.
The list is based on traffic rank reports from Compete and Alexa, backed up by visitor reports from some of the site admins.
1. The Pirate Bay
It has been a good year for The Pirate Bay. The number of visitors... Read Full Story
The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks (.torrent) files. It bills itself as "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker " [ 1 ] and is ranked as the 109th most popular website by Alexa Internet . [ 2 ] The website is primarily funded with advertisements shown next to torrent listings. Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau), it has been operating as a separate organization since October 2004. The... Read Full Story
BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc.
Main Features:
- Clean and free, without any adware or... Read Full Story
