The Pirate Bay likes to be as open as possible in its pledge to stick it to copyright owners and their greedy greediness. But sometimes they’re forced to
Torrents are the latest way to download music and movie files from the Internet. Quickly becoming more popular than Kazaa and Limewire, BitTorrent sharing is actually quite easy to learn. And at the center of all of this controversy: The 5 Best Torrent Search Engines of 2006...
Windows only: Want to direct your non-torrent-savvy friends or relatives to a download they really need to check out? Free web utility Torrent2Exe takes torrent download links—the kind you'd
BitTorrent is the go-to resource for downloading everything from music and movies to software and operating systems, but as its popularity continues to grow, so do the number of
Many experienced file-sharers can’t understand why relative novices manage to download so much junk from BitTorrent. Fake downloads that never finish, video files which refuse to play, movies that require special players and unwatchable video are easily avoided by those in the know. But how do they do it?
Brilliant new file sharing web site EatLime expedites online file sharing by allowing your friends to begin downloading the file as soon as you start uploading it, meaning you
Written for both beginning and intermediate users, this site explains Internet peer-sharing, how it works, and how best to participate so you can share music and multimedia files with your computer. Articles and tutorials brought to you by your About Guide to Internet for Beginners.
P2P is the most controversial activity on the Internet today. Comprising 30% to 50% of the Internet's bandwidth use at any single time, a heated debate continues over the legalities and ethics of peer-to-peer file sharing. Here is a collection of articles explaining the confusing laws and ethics behind this debate.
Web application Glasnost simulates BitTorrent downloads on your computer to determine whether or not your internet service provider (ISP) is throttling your BitTorrent transfers. It does so by measuring
A BitTorrent P2P client sometimes experiences slow download speeds due to the design of the BitTorrent network protocol. This tip allows you to speed up a Bit Torrent client by setting up a home firewall / router correctly.
"MUTE" File Sharing is an emerging online network dedicated to private downloading. The users of Mute are masked, and their identities are concealed from each other.
The BitTorrent bandwidth battle continues. Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in developing bandwidth managing solutions for Universities and ISPs, announced today that their products are now able to detect and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic. In addition, they introduce the option to maintain a “whitelist” of legal BitTorrent trackers that are allowed on the monitored network. You could call it the PeerGuardian for ISPs.
The Hydra Project is a new script for private BitTorrent trackers designed to resist any attack or raid, and to guarantee the privacy and anonymity of its users. It’s truly hydra compatible, which is much needed quality in these turbulent times.
Earlier this week, a Lifehacker reader caught downloading copyrighted material using BitTorrent told us about the scary warning letter she received from her ISP about a big media company
As more and more people hear about BitTorrent, each day the major sites get bigger, with more and more visitors, members, seeds and peers. Mainstream awareness of P2P is driving this new surge but with copyright and law enforcement agencies clamping down hard, some are considering tactics for survival.
More and more ISP’s are limiting and throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question.
BTGuard is an easy to use proxy service that adds an extra layer of privacy to your BitTorrent transfers. The service is designed for BitTorrent users who don’t want their ISPs or any third party to log or throttle their IPs or traffic.
All over Europe thousands of people are being threatened with court action for allegedly sharing games like Dream Pinball 3D on P2P networks. Now, documents obtained by TorrentFreak show details of the anti-piracy company’s techniques for identifying alleged file-sharers on the internet and the gathering of claimed ‘forensic quality’ evidence for use in court cases.