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Torrent Trackers Block, Ban uTorrent

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:18:32 +0000

In case you are wondering why ain’t your uTorrent Bit-torrent client is running slow and /or not connecting to some Trackers, there’s a good reason to read on.

Last month uTorrent 2.0 was released with much awaited features. One of the biggest changes in the new uTorrent is uTP, the ‘micro transfer protocol’. The response was good, but few evangelist, as torrentfreak reports, strongly disagree with the move.

uTP is a new and improved implementation of the BitTorrent protocol which is designed to be more network-friendly as it will throttle itself if congestion is detected in the network. the intent was to improve and eliminate the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic and would let users get over the slowdown of other web applications.

How successful is uTP in eliminating congestion is still a matter of discussion. .. Read Further »

Mininova is Dead

admin — 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. Mininova had been warned by the Court and seems like they accepted the defeat for the good of the industry.

PirateBay, the leader of all pirates, has been able to survive all attempts for shutdown. .. Read Further »

PirateBay is Dead, But Lives forever

admin — 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. But Piratebay somehos managed to get back up via another ISP proving how Ineffective a Government can be when Pirates go supreme.

Since last 2 months, it had been a cat-mouse game, governments trying to catch PirateBay without success.

But todays shutdown wasn’t a court-ordered takedown or the result of regulatory .. Read Further »

Download Torrentz without .Torrent file

admin — 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 installed, Firefox addon Magnetiser monitors your searches on Torrentz. If it detects that you’re on a torrent’s detail page, you’ll see “Magnetise” in the Firefox status bar. Click on Magnetise to open the torrent in your default .. Read Further »

WiFi Direct: Device to Device Connectivity

admin — 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 established over Wi-Fi instead of another wireless technology governed by a separate standard.

Feeling happy Already? Let us know what you think about this. .. Read Further »

PirateBay is Dead – World’s Largest P2P Torrent Tracker

admin — 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 P2P and File-sharing. The most popular BitTorrent tracker in the world appeared to be inaccessible to many in the U.S. on Monday morning but the blog TorrentFreak reported that the site had found a new .. Read Further »

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