Vuze to Go portable edition launched
Vuze has announced a portable edition of their Bittorrent client. Vuze was previously called Azureus which used to be one of the most popular BT clients in the market. Things changed with the arrival of uTorrent.
Vuze to Go is the portable edition of Vuze but it is neither open [...]
The Pirate Bay found guilty
This is good news for all the media companies around the world who have been targeting peer to peer sharing networks.
The Pirate Bay has been found guilty of breaking Sweden’s copyright law. They did that by allowing web users to freely download copyrighted content from the web.
The courts have also [...]
Facebook blocks The Pirate Bay links
The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular though controversial BitTorrent search engine on the web.
The service recently added a new feature on their network which enabled their users to share Pirate Bay torrent links on their Facebook profile.
Facebook has apparently decided to block these links due [...]
IPREDator public launch coming up!
IPREDator is a new service that is going to be soon available for public.
IPREDator would offer a VPN account to users who are interested in having a secure connection for peer to peer downloads.
This service would cost about 5 EUR a month.
The developers promise that they are not going to [...]
Mininova facing DDoS attack continuously
BitTorrent search engine Mininova has revealed that they have been facing repeated DDoS attacks in the past couple of days.
This attack is being conducted by botnet spanning three continents.
Some of the times, the entire service becomes inaccessible due to the massive load put on the servers of the [...]
uTorrent has more than 28 million monthly users!
TorrentFreak is reporting that the popular free bittorrent application uTorrent has more than 28 Million Monthly Users.
This tiny application was first released three years ago. It has seen many updated versions till now.
The developers have even made available an Apple Mac edition.
TorrentFreak quotes Simon Morris, [...]
Joost discontinuing software based service
P2P based video service Joost recently launched their service on their website.
Users can now watch Joost programming through their website.
The company has now decided to discontinue their software based service.
Joost said in an email message to current users that they would discontinue delivering videos through the Joost software from [...]
High School Musical the latest theme for malware
High School Musical related malware is increasingly becoming common in the wild.
Panda Security has warned that fans of this series should take precautions downloading material related to HSM from the net.
The dangers are more from p2p networks where the users often go to download pirated material like [...]
Mininova gets a major hardware upgrade
Mininova is one of the most popular torrent searching services on the web.
TorrentFreak has reported that the service has just gone a major hardware upgrade as they prepare for more traffic and users in the coming times.
Mininova co-founder Erik spoke about this upgrade during the shift: “One of the critical [...]
Windows 7 test editions out on Torrent networks
Microsoft just recently issued a very early development release of Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference.
Market sources say that this release has been leaked to the web and it is now available for download on the torrent networks.
Both 32bit and 64bit editions are said to be available [...]
