ups and downs

We did it again. Despite being chronically understaffed we managed to get at least one article published on TorrentFreak every day in 2010.

Although we aim to regularly publish articles worthy of being listed in a year's end overview, rather than choose those for inclusion ourselves we felt our loyal readers should do the talking.

So what were the hottest debated topics in the file-sharing world this year? Let's find out.

At the TorrentFreak office we toyed with several ideas to form the basis of this list.

Amazon has had plenty of ups and downs since launching in 1994--here are a few of the more...colorful controversies the site has had to contend with, over the years.

Back in 2007, we wrote about a startup that was trying to sneak its way through anti-online gambling laws by trying to squeeze through a loophole.

The site, called Betcha, would let people bet each other on various things, but which let bettors renege on any bet if they lost.

Of course, doing so would give you negative feedback on your profile. However, the site argued that because anyone could bail out of a bet, it wasn't illegal gambling.

Hulu may be well known for being the place to find your favorite TV shows online, but you could soon be visiting the video website to get your weekly dose of Hulu-created reality TV.

PC Authority: "Stuart Turton spends the second day of his one week odyssey with Linux, battling Fedora and DVD playback troubles, while trying valiantly not to go back to the relative 'safety' of Vista, as frustrations start to boil over."

PC Magazine: "Linux is turning up in everything from netbooks to Dell PCs, but is it actually fit to replace Windows? Stuart Turton spends a week with Linux to find out"