Posts Tagged ‘P2P’

Quick Tip: Test If Your Port Is Open


Quick Tip: Test If Your Port Is Open

Have you installed a new router and want to check if you have the ports open? Here is a quick tip to Test if your port is Open.
Port forwarding commonly refers to the change of destination address and/or port on the packet with subsequent regular routing in a network address translator gateway to reach a [...]

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µTorrent 1.8 Now available for download


µTorrent 1.8 Now available for download

A new and stable versions for uTorrent. For those who didn’t know µTorrent (uTorrent) is a free BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows written in C++ and localized for many different languages. It is designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger BitTorrent clients such as Azureus or BitComet.

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Piracy is not theft!

Piracy is not theft!

It is?

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Completorrent and Google custom search engine

Completorrent and Google custom search engine

After YouTorrent here you have the next generation for searching torrent files. Is called CompletTorrent and is the most comprehensive torrent search website on the internet.
How does CompleTorrent work? CompleTorrent uses google as a backend. This makes it just as efficient as google is at categorizing links based on popularity and [...]

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No Internet for P2P Downloaders in France

No Internet for P2P Downloaders in France

French internet users who frequently download illegal music and movies will risk losing their internet connection, according to a newly passed anti-piracy law. This three-way pact between the French government, internet service providers and the local recording industry will allow ISPs to spy on their users and give warnings if they download stuff over [...]

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Mediadefender hack costs company 825,000 USD. Pirate Bay’s Secret Sourse?

Mediadefender hack costs company 825,000 USD. Pirate Bay's Secret Sourse?

Those 6000 Mediadefender emails that leaked onto the web in September cost the anti-piracy outlet dearly: A recent SEC filing of Mediadefender parent ArtistDirect reveals that the company lost at least 825,000 dollars due to the hack – enough money to eat up all of ArtistDirect’s profits for the third quarter. The biggest chunk [...]

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Demonoid Shuts Down Again

Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers, was forced to go offline again because the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) threatened their ISP.
It’s been just over 6 weeks since the CRIA allegedly shut down the Demonoid BitTorrent tracker. Details were scarce at the time, with lots of people simply claiming the site had some [...]

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A Future Without BitTorrent

The guys from The Pirate Bay are always working on interesting side-projects, but there is one in particular that’s so significant, it might be the future of filesharing. For a while now, they have been working on a brand new protocol – which may come to replace BitTorrent in the near future.
Why a new protocol? [...]

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I Was a Hacker for the MPAA

Exclusive by Wired.com
Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown’s anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker.
In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells for the first time how the Motion Picture Association of America promised him money and power [...]

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