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For half a decade The Pirate Bay has been the leading BitTorrent site, but soon its users will no longer be able to download .torrent files.

The first step in this direction will be taken on February 29, the Pirate Bay announced today.

After half a decade of loyal service, The Pirate Bay shut down its tracker in November 2009.

With millions of people using BitTorrent every day, the protocol has been the leading P2P technology from more than half a decade.

Despite massive competition from cyberlockers, BitTorrent continues to expand year after year, and not just by a little.

Today, BitTorrent Inc. announced that their two flagship clients increased their user base by 50 percent, to more than 150 million active users a month.

BitTorrent Inc. is mostly known for the development of the uTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline clients, but today the company adds another piece of software to its arsenal.

Millions of people use BitTorrent every day, and those who want to share a file of their own literally have thousands of sites to choose from.

However, the problem with most public BitTorrent indexes is that they are littered with ads and sponsored download traps that can be quite cumbersome.

By now the story of The Pirate Bay (TPB) and its humble Swedish-only beginnings is a well worn tale.

The site’s roots can be traced back to Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy), a pro-piracy organization founded in August 2003.

For many Android users Transdroid is the perfect remote access app for managing their BitTorrent clients on the go.

The app allows users to start and stop torrents, search torrent files and even use the barcode scanner to find matching torrent files.

Transdroid offered both a free and a paid version of the app, and judging from the 400,000 downloads people seemed to appreciate it.

However, as of this week, Google decided that Transdroid is no longer eligible to be placed in the Android Market.

Traditionally, BitTorrent users load a .torrent file in their desktop client to download something, but today they have several alternatives, each with their own benefits.

In the past we’ve covered a wide variety of torrent-download services.

However, the new startup Fetch.io is one of the most impressive we’ve seen thus far, and not just because they’re giving away accounts for free.

With their roll-out of uTorrent 3.0 last week, BitTorrent Inc. introduced a bunch of new features.

Users can now stream video files while they’re downloading, and they can also add comments and ratings to torrents.

uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005 and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application.

Today close to 100 million users worldwide use the client regularly and this number continues to rise.