Tag Archives: torrents

uTorrent 2.0: Cure for ISP Throttling

uTorrent is a popular client for downloading files using P2P networks. uTorrent is developed by BitTorrent Inc. There is much debate over throttling of P2P traffic by ISPs arguing the traffic is causing congestion on the network, users argue for … Continue reading

Pirate Bay copied, resurrected

The infamous torrent site Pirate Bay was copied by an anonymous user and made available as a torrent for other to download as a backup if the original site goes away or goes paid with the new owners. The copy … Continue reading

Search Torrents from your Desktop with TorrentFetcher

There are several torrent search engines and every torrent tracker provides a search engine, but it would be better to have a desktop app that can search for the torrents. Some of the torrent download clients allow this but they … Continue reading

BitBlinder allows Anonymous BitTorrent and Browsing

BitBlinder is an open source project aimed at offering anonymous bittorrents and browsing to get around filters. With increasing policing and Governments considering internet cut off for users downloading music or movies over P2P networks, anonymous bittorrenting is good solution … Continue reading

Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked to Torrents (Updated with Screenshots)

Microsoft put up a registration for Office 2010 technical preview just a few days back. The technical preview will start in July, if you like to join you can add yourself to the preview program here. If you can’t wait … Continue reading

BitLet offers video streaming of torrents

BitLet is a browser based Java applet that allows you to download torrents with out any BitTorrent clients installed. BitLet recently added the ability to stream Video from .torrent files.

Mininova introduces copyright filtering system

Mininova, one of the popular torrent sites is testing a filtering system to recognize and remove torrents infringing copyrights in the aftermath of the Pirate Bay trial. Under the new system Mininova will use a third part content recognition system … Continue reading

Pirate Bay to offer a VPN service for anonymity

Torrentfreak is reporting that PirateBay guys are planning to offer a VPN service starting as early as April 1st 2009, i hope this is not an April fools joke.

Find Private Torrent Sites Accepting User Registrations

Private Torrent sites like Demonoid won’t accept registrations all the time, they will open registrations once in a while and then close them. While public trackers like ThePiratebay are good some files you will not find on them and you … Continue reading

uTorrent Mac Version Released

uTorrent the popular client software for downloading torrents is released for Mac systems today. uTorrent for windows was available from 2005 and the Mac versions is promised after it was acquired by BitTorrent Inc.