bittorrent

Most people know that BitTorrent is far from anonymous, but seeing all your recent downloads listed on a public website is still quite a revelation.

This is exactly what Youhavedownloaded.com does. The developers of the site want to make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, and are currently working on a more anonymous version of the leading file-sharing technology.

Most people are familiar with Apple’s Mac vs. PC advertising campaign that ran from 2006 to 2010. However, there’s a BitTorrent spin-off to this series of ads that, until today, hasn’t seen the light of day.

Produced a few years ago for BitTorrent Inc, the BitTorrent vs. iTunes campaign shows BitTorrent’s superiority of Apple’s iTunes store.

Last month the second case against a UK-based BitTorrent site came to an end. Two administrators of FileSoup had their case dropped by the authorities and were free men once again.

This week, personal belongings that were seized during the house raids were released and returned, but what should have been a celebration turned out to be a great disappointment.

Is it now a sign of madness to even go online without some kind of protection?

Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S.

Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain of a BitTorrent meta-search engine along with those belonging to other music linking sites and several others which appear to be connected to physical counterfeit goods.

Exactly a year ago The Pirate Bay team surprised friends and foes when it announced that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker was shutting down for good.

The site’s torrent index would remain online, but millions of users had to find alternative trackers or rely on trackerless technologies to share their torrents from then on.

In addition, The Pirate Bay suggested a move away from .torrent files entirely in the future.

You may have seen the recent stories about the "TV show" Pioneer One that was made with the plan all along to release the show on BitTorrent, and to set up a tiered system to fund future episodes.

While some people insist that BitTorrent users never download authorized content, after the show was released, it quickly became a top download beating out lots of more "famous" competitors.

On top of that, it appears that people are donating.

Last year we introduced Trackhub as a service that shields BitTorrent’s Achilles’ heel by distributing downloaders to a working tracker in case the main tracker in a torrent fails.

Since then the site has gained a steady user base, so steady that the service itself is down half of the day because it exceeds the limits of Google’s App Engine.

This revolutionary technology has changed our perception of how data can be uploaded, stored, and shared in the public cloud.

With hundreds of thousands of downloads on BitTorrent just four days after its official release, Avatar is on its way to adding another title to its already impressive track record.

With a download rate that surpasses all previous Blu-ray titles, the film is on its way to becoming the most pirated Blu-ray film to date.