BitTorrent Site Promises to Bring Back OiNK
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The Pirate Bay said Friday that it was working on bringing back OiNK, a BitTorrent tracker that featured music files from "hundreds of thousands" of music albums.
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In what could serve as a chilling warning to operators of other private file sharing networks, UK and Dutch police jointly raided the homes of those running OiNK, an invite-only BitTorrent site that allegedly has been the source of much pirated music.
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Blog: Decision could mean companies may be compelled to turn over RAM data in civil cases. TorrentSpy vows to continue legal fight.
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Popular video download site compromises in its alliance with Hollywood, but expects online evolution.
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Makes a hash of it As TorrentSpy continues to fight a lawsuit by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), founders of the popular video download site have announced a new filtering system that allows content owners to remove pirated material from the siteâs search results.â¦
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It used to be the most popular online file-sharing software, but Kazaa&#39;s long-term run at the top of the heap is now over. An online tracking firm says the new #1 site is the e-Donkey Overnet network.
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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LAFAYETTE, Colo., Sept. 5  /PRNewswire/ -- Managing BitTorrent traffic has become an issue in the news lately.
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Blog: The Pirate Bay, a site accused of encouraging copyright violations, said Swedish authorities were preparing to accuse the site of distributing porn. Site operators suspect this was just the latest attempt to close them down.
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The file transfer service BitTorrent plans to open an online movie store to sell foreign films and other hard to find video, including content from China, Japan and India.
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(InfoWorld) - The beta build of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" that Apple handed out to developers June 11 at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has leaked to the Internet and is being downloaded by users of PirateBay, the Swedish torrent tracker. Last Monday, CEO Steve Jobs spent most of this 90-minute WWDC keynote address touting the upcoming OS, which is set for release in October. Eight days later, the beta labeled build "9A466" was uploaded to PirateBay. The first upload on Tuesday didn't take -- there was only one "seeder," the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file -- but the second yesterday is being downloaded and assembled, according to comments left by numerous users. As of late yesterday, only four seeders were available, with 181 "leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. By 3 p.m. today EDT, however, the numbers had climbed to 44 seeders and more than 1,500 leechers. The beta was also posted to the private, invitation-only torrent tracker Oink yesterday, according to CrunchGear, a tech blog. But when CrunchGear exposed the leak, Oink pulled the beta. That sent downloaders into a verbal rage during which they vented their collective spleens at the blogger who outed Oink. "Go [expletive deleted] yourself you [expletive deleted] rat," ranted one. Based on the PirateBay listing, the Leopard 9A466 beta weighs in at a bit more than 6GB. But the exact byte count worried a user tagged as "konelli." "It's definitely not my intention to spoil the party, but how do we know that this is the real thing? Last time I checked, the WWDC version was supposed to be 6.94GB (or 7,450,640,384 bytes). This is, well, less. Has anybody finished downloading who could confirm that this is genuine?" Apple was asked if it planned to pursue the person or persons who leaked the build to BitTorrent, or what actions it might take against PirateBay. It did not immediately respond with comment, however. The first question is especially important in light of past history. The last time an under-development version of Mac OS X ended up on BitTorrent, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker brought out its lawyers. In December 2004, Apple sued three men, as well as 25 others identified only as "Does," for releasing a developer preview of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4, via the BitTorrent file-sharing network. All three were members of the company's own Developer Connection, Apple claimed, and had illegally leaked their copies of Tiger. But after several Apple notables, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, pleaded for leniency in blogs and other online postings, Apple backed off a bit. During a 10-month span from March to December 2005, Apple signed a settlement with the three named defendants: students Vivek Sambhara, David Schwartzstein, and David Steigerwald. Each promised to never again release information about the company or its products, while media accounts reported that Schwartzstein and Steigerwald also distributed repentant statements and paid damages to Apple. "We are pleased that Mr. Steigerwald has taken responsibility for his actions and that we can put this lawsuit behind us," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told the Associated Press in March 2005 after the company settled with David Steigerwald, then a 22-year-old North Carolina college student.
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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Founders of TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent search-engine and tracker-hosting site currently under legal assault from Hollywood studios, have launched a new company called FileRights designed to help copyright owners keep their content from being shared or indexed online, the new company announced Monday.
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Kazaa's long-standing position as the most popular online file-sharing software appears to be over. Last month, the daily average of file-swappers on the FastTrack peer-to-peer network, which includes Kazaa and related programs, was surpassed for the first time by users on the eDonkey/Overnet network, according to online tracking firm BayTSP Inc.
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The file swapping network BitTorrent has lost most, if not all, of its Hub connections. The quick change in status is believed to be directly correlated with the MPAA threats of legal action if the network continued to operate.
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A Console-based BitTorrent Client with built-in scheduler for handling multiple sessions. It is designed to manage sessions in queue easily without heavy-weight GUI. External module can search for new torrents in trackers and submit it automatically. BTQueue 0.0.15 is stable enough for long run. BTQueue. 0.0.16 has been modified to extend its functionality for maximum extensibility.   Now, you can limit global download rate (not accurate but  usable). In contrast, global upload rate limitting algorithm has  been changed to improve fairness.  Furthermore, crawler module now supports user-defined filter  so that new tracker sites can be added manually. This version  also fully handles cookie taken from new commands, wget and  wpost, and old commands, add and meta. For more convenience, scrape command has been added to help  testing given torrent.  For one who wants to know peers, ip2cc database has been  updated with routing policy provied by rddb. You will get its  description instead of just netname.  To increase comfortability, BTQueue now provides daemon  mode and remote control mode so that you do not need "screen" to run it on unix server anymore. Moreover, you  can define unlimited aliases to make your command shorter. It is possible to add run-time arguments to each alias.  You can download this latest version here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104734&package_id=112679
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A legal campaign against sites that help people share films online appears to have forced a popular site to close.