The Chief Content Officer of streaming giant Netflix claims the modern trend for easily streaming legal content is impacting on the more hardcore Bittorrent scene, with pirate traffic dropping in countries when Netflix switches on its servers. According to Netflix's Ted Sarandos, this is because "...people are mostly honest." Read More >>
Yo ho yo ho, a pirate's life for me. And for you! And for everyone! Because downloading BitTorrent files just got a lot easier. BitTorrent is finally pushing its torrenting browser plug-in, BitTorrent Surf, to beta for you to try. That means you don't have to deal with pesky desktop clients, your browser (Chrome or Firefox) effectively becomes the only BitTorrent client you need. Read More >>
BitTorrent's already used to download shows just an hour or two after TV debut, but when we're talking about finding who's made the cut on X Factor, an hour without Simon Cowell's soothing voice is an hour too long. So, from the people who've brought you just about every TV show ever, comes the modestly'named "future of TV" -- BitTorrent Live. Read More >>
Game of Thrones season three premiered last night, and that's kind of a big deal. If you're a fan, you'll need no convincing. But if you need proof of its potency, here you go: according to numbers collected by TorrentFreak, the Game of Thrones season three premier now holds the record for the biggest BitTorrent swarm ever. Read More >>
While The Pirate Pay is certainly notorious, it's always oddly lingered in the mid-table when it comes to real-world file sharing. No longer, though: according to fresh analysis by Torrent Freak, the site has now sailed into the top spot as the world's most-used file sharing site. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"The media and anti pirate companies have successfully drawn peoples attention to piracy, informed everyone it was possible and even pointed them direc..." More »
Livestreams are great and all, but they're all subject to a terrible reality: the more people who want to watch, the more likely it is the stream goes down. BitTorrent's P2P streaming service BitTorrent Live stands to change all that by actually drawing strength from the crowd, and it's here to start shaking up the scene. Read More >>
Not too long ago, BitTorrent launched a little project called Sync, that provides practically unlimited cloud storage. Now the professional sharers are rolling out yet another service called "SoShare" that promises to let you easily send huge files to friends an coworkers with little to no hassle. Up to a whole terabyte at the click of a button. Read More >>
Everybody's got their grand plans to put an end to piracy -- ISPs are blocking The Pirate Bay, and as for the FBI, they like to take down sites like MegaUpload. But that doesn't mean they don't torrent themselves. TorrentFreak dug up a little list of what's been being pirated from FBI IPs. Read More >>
Featured comment by macmann:
"Hey, you've convinced me. Let's shut down the FBI, the Met Police and every other governmental body because they're all rotten to the core.
Or... may..." More »
Mega has been stealing the spotlight when it comes to new cloud storage services, but its actual usability has been sort of crappy since launch. Meanwhile, in Kim Dotcom's gargantuan shadow, BitTorrent is trying its hand at "cloud" storage too, with BitTorrent Sync, and it just might be the Mega that Mega wants to be. Read More >>
It's the end of the year and TorrentFreak has taken a look back at the year in movie piracy. The entire list isn't exactly surprising, but there are a few weird entries on there. For instance, the top movie sucks. Read More >>
Featured comment by Southern:
"I think you actually are referring to downloading a copy of a religious text and start reading it. The virus takes hold in the brain stem and then bam..." More »
Three Canadian travelers who met each other in Australia decided to become the next big thing in torrent tracking, setting up their own search site at the end of November. And even though it had no users, it was enough to get their visas cancelled and have them thrown out of the country. Read More >>
Torrenting, it's the tool of thieves and pirates, right? The evil protocol no honest person should ever dare touch? Not quite, but it's got that reputation with some, and it's trying hard to shake it. According to BitTorrent's executive director of marketing Matt Mason, they plan to take it all the way in the other direction and get into legal content distribution. Read More >>
A very sordid little affair has broken out in the US, where a network and ISP is being sued by a porn industry collective for refusing to hand over the details of torrent users it claims are guilty of pirating adult movies. Read More >>
A group of musicians, producers, and labels is going after CBS-owned Download.com for hosting BitTorrent clients like uTorrent. This, after the same group has been trying to sue the company for profiting from the distribution of LimeWire. Ugh, why, absolute foolishness. Read More >>
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