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Mininova is Dead

Taranfx — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:59:15 +0000

World’s 2nd most popular p2p BitTorrent site, Mininova, today resigned from it’s leading position, saying bye bye to Piracy forever. Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August. Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. The Lawsuits had been going worldwide to hunt Pirates down. Read further »

PirateBay is Dead, But Lives forever

Taranfx — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:22:58 +0000

After months of Tiring legal controversy and Lawsuits, which were followed by months of uncertainty about the future of the service, the Pirate Bay’s popular torrent tracker has been shut down for good. On August 24th, we had reported “PirateBay is Dead“, after being unpligged by ISP on a special threatening order to ISP that feeds PirateBay. Read further »

Download Torrentz without .Torrent file

Taranfx — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:10:00 +0000

If you are frequent Torrent/p2p user and use Firefox this will come handy for you. TorrentZ.com is world’s largest Torrent search engine, most of the time you have to navigate to other third-party sites for the download. However, BitTorrent clients like uTorrent, Vuze (formerly Azureus) support magnet links, which, for the purpose of BitTorrent, allow users to start downloads without an actual .torrent file. This could be very helpful when torrent file download is blocked and for all other cases, adds convenience Once Read further »

WiFi Direct: Device to Device Connectivity

Taranfx — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:42:44 +0000

More than 5 years ago, when Wifi became popular at offices, home uses, alot of people felt a basic feature left missing. Device to device (P2P) wireless communication without the need of a wireless router in-between, just like how bluetooth works: a sort of mesh network without the need to switch to AdHoc connection mode. The Wi-Fi Alliance announced it has almost completed the standard which could make these a reality: Wi-Fi Direct. Wi-Fi Direct was known as “Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer,” and has been termed to in IEEE meetings and consumer forums as a Bluetooth Killer. Using this new Wireless standard, direct connections between computers, and gadgets: phones, cameras, keyboards, and future classes of components are Read further »

PirateBay is Dead – World’s Largest P2P Torrent Tracker

Taranfx — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:38:19 +0000

UPDATE- PirateBay is back, up and running from a new Service Provider. But for how long — Till August 27th ? NO – Why Pirate Bay Won’t R.I.P. Not atleast Till Next Century After the years of Lawsuits held against the Piracy Giant, today Swedish district court has ordered the Internet service provider(ISP) that used to power PirateBay, to stop servicing The Pirate Bay immediately or the ISP could face heavy fines of 500,000 Kroner ($70,600 US) a day. The Pirate Bay’s ISP had no choice but to comply and disconnect the website from the Internet. If you are Torrent fan, no doubt you love PirateBay. It’s indeed a sad day in the history of Read further »