Revision3 , the online video studio founded by Kevin Rose and home of the Diggnation video podcast amongst others, suffered a denial of service attack at the end of last week. While that’s pretty common, there was a bit more to it than your normal DOS.
The website’s servers suffered extensive outage over the memorial weekend, and the problem continued until Tuesday when the admins came back to work and solved the issue.
MediaDefender To Blame
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Now that you have you client and host and tcp connections and such taken care of we can really get started. Here are a list of great torrent sites you should check out: Torrent Search Engines: http://www.youtorrent.com/ http://www.torrentscan.com/ Individual torrent sites: http://thepiratebay.org/ http://isohunt.com/ http://h33t.com/ http://www.mininova.org/ http://www.torrentz.com/ http://www.torrentbox.com/torrents-browse.php?news
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The Pirate Bay , a controversial Swedish group that runs the “ world’s largest BitTorrent tracker “, continues its daring and defiant quest to liberate file-sharing on the Internet by launching a new blogging service called BayWords . Expanding its persistent defense of freedom of speech and uncensored, open-source web, The Pirate Bay started BayWords to provide bloggers with a secure hosting service (using Wordpress as its blogging engine) that will not shut down sites due to deviant... Read Full Story
Wanted to wait on this one to make sure that demonoid was actually going to stay on line, but they are back, and badder than ever. While demios might have moved on, the site, data, and users were turned over to the admin staff that previously supported demios running the site.
It is currently closed to new registrations, but with new hosting, a new mission, and extra drive when it comes down to supporting the bittorrent community, demonoid might be harder to take off line this time... Read Full Story
Torrent Spy shut down completely today, leaving users heading over to the pirate bay, private trackers, and a host of other public/private systems for bittorrent downloading. The notice on their web site looked like this today.
TorrentSpy was an important tracker, that and the shuttering of demonoid later on last year, and the host of other bittorrent trackers over the last few years, what is interesting is that the actual number of bittorrent users continues to grow, expand, and data is... Read Full Story
Lots of updates for popular applications in this week. The usual suspects have been updated, like uTorrent, Azureus, Opera or foobar that seem to be updated on a weekly schedule but also some applications that don’t get updated that often, say Azureus or Tagscanner.
A short explanation about this post for the new readers. I’m writing an article each Wednesday about last week’s software updates. Only free and Open Source software makes it into that list and if you follow it regularly you... Read Full Story
I didn’t see this one coming at all, in fact I thought Demonoid was dead and buried. But no, six months to the day after it disappeared, the Demonoid BitTorrent tracker and site is back.
The trouble for the popular BitTorrent tracker began last June when a Dutch anti-piracy outfit put pressure on the site’s ISP. This lead to it being moved from Holland to Canada, presumed to be a safe haven.
Unfortunately for Demonoid, the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) got the site... Read Full Story
Torrentscan. com (a "meta-search" engine, which is a search engine that searches other search engines) BiteNova (formerly known as "Bi-Torrents" , BiteNova is a free Torrent site with a spartan look and fast searching format.) Isohunt.com September, 2007: Isohunt is barring American users from connecting to American torrent trackers. American users, however, can still use Isohunt to find torrents, and connect to third party trackers. Torrentspy.com March 24, 2008: Torrentspy has voluntarily... Read Full Story
Its easy to obtain the Fastest downloads on bitTorrent you have ever had.
I love to download, and I have been for years, spending countless hours on the computer, finding the best, safest, and fastest way to download music, videos, programs, etc., and below I will show you everything you need in order to download quickly with ease. Read Full Story
Torrent.is went to court this week and the site now faces a permanent shutdown and the possibility that they will have to compensate copyright owners. Since nearly 10% of Iceland's population were me 8 Vote(s) Read Full Story
