Tag: TORRENTS

Each year in the months leading up to the SXSW music festival, a massive collection of songs from participating performers gets assembled. The collection gets rolled up into a jumbo-sized torrent, and then given to the masses for free. The 2011 SXSW torrent packs almost four and a half gigs of musical goodness -- nearly 800 songs! The best part is that this is all guilt-free, ...

A new Windows BitTorrent client called zButterfly has a twist that sets it apart from the competition: a menu of current movie releases, including the hottest flicks that are still running in theaters. zButterfly has an easy-to-use interface for searching and browsing the releases, and operates entirely on torrentless downloading via magnet links. Even the most clueless downloader can use ...

Unsinkable torrent site The Pirate Bay was temporarily down after police raided file-sharing servers in as many as 14 European countries on Tuesday morning. TorrentFreak, one of the web's most prominent torrent news sites, reports that the main target was the Pirate Bay's ISP in Sweden, where police tried to find out who was using two specific IP addresses. More raids happened in major Swedish ...

Image via TorrentFreak (click image for full size). In an ironic twist, The USCG seems to have been caught quite red-handed in an attempt to lazily steal code from a competitor's website. They didn't just take bits and pieces, either; the site they had "built" was a nearly complete reproduction of the original. To further deepen the irony of the incident, it was the crew at TorrentFreak who ...

There's no exploitation in play here, just the wholesale harvesting and presentation of superficial data for roughly one-fifth of Facebook's half-billion strong user-base. Ron Bowes, of Skull Security, posted the torrent to the Pirate Bay after realizing that his pet project had become something that others might be interested in. He had basically crawled the Facebook directory, and indexed the ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/07/03/pirate-party-to-host-pirate-bay-swedish-parliament/'; You may remember that, back in May of this year, the Swedish Pirate Party became the new ISP of the Pirate Bay. That alone was not only surprising, but proved to be politically spectacular in the rawest sense of the word. Now the Pirate Party wants to take their stand even further, ...

uTorrent, one of the most popular torrent apps for Windows, is getting a stable release for Mac today. According to the uTorrent blog, it's been a years-long road toward a Mac client that has nearly achieved feature parity with its Windows counterpart. All of the protocol enhancements that make uTorrent fast are part of this Mac release, including (and this is straight off the blog, so I don't ...

The torrent community is thrilled with the outcome of the recent Viacom v. Google lawsuit, where Viacom sued the Big G for letting YouTube users upload its copyrighted material. Google won the billion-dollar case, but TorrentFreak says BitTorrent users are the real winners. The ruling essentially says that if copyright holders want content removed for violating the DMCA, they must ask to have ...

Pirates unite! Earlier this week, we reported that The Pirate Bay had to change ISPs in response to a legal challenge from the MPAA in a German court. Well, the site is up and running again after migrating to its new provider ... the Swedish Pirate Party. That's right, The Pirate Bay's biggest political supporter is now its ISP. Talk about a hands-on approach to policy! In an interview with ...

By this point in The Pirate Bay's history, nobody should be surprised when it goes down to relocate its servers or respond to new legal problems. It's down again today, while its lawyers review the latest threat from Hollywood movie studios. The studios successfully got an injunction against the popular torrent site in the Regional Court of Hamburg (Germany). The injunction ordered The Pirate Bay ...

The Pirate Bay, one of the web's most well-known torrent trackers, may have been sailing into choppier waters than anyone realized when its owners agreed to sell to games company GGF and its eccentric CEO, Hans Pandeya. The deal eventually collapsed, but it turns out that The Pirate Bay wasn't the only major torrent site GGF wanted to buy. Today, TorrentFreak is reporting that knowledgeable ...

Here at Download Squad, at least a few of us are in love with Dropbox for file-syncing, storage and sharing. It's a great app with a lot of uses, and after months of using it, I'm still discovering new Dropbox tricks. For example, Lifehacker just picked up on a way to start torrent downloads remotely via your Dropbox account. Let's say you're at work, and you don't want to download several ...

2009 was the biggest year ever for TV piracy. In fact, downloading shows has become so popular that some shows had download totals higher than their average TV viewership. TorrentFreak has compiled the staggering download numbers to reveal the top 10 most-pirated shows of 2009, and you may be surprised just how many times your favorite shows were torrented. Heroes came in at number 1 with ...

Demonoid, one of the most popular torrent sites on the web, went down due to hardware failures and data loss back in September. Although this left a hole in the hearts of many torrent aficionados, there was a glimmer of hope in November, when Demonoid's tracker came back online. Now, more good news: as of yesterday, Demonoid's website is back up, and registered users can sign in. Servers are busy, ...

When the news came down a few days ago about The Pirate Bay being sold, the community reacted strongly. Despite pleas on the official blog for users to not abandon the site, it was inevitable that the 'betrayal' many users felt would lead to a flood of account deletions. To a number of P2P users, TPB is dead. After all, once GGF goes to work the site will likely be a hollow shell of its former ...