Neowin News Feed for: Torrent

BitTorrent monetizes platform by launching the BitTorrent Bundle format

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:48:46 +0100

BitTorrent has a new format for their file-sharing platform called a BitTorrent Bundle. This allows content creators to charge money for their content directly from within the torrent file. Read more...

UK Court orders blocking of more "illegal" websites

Steven Parker — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:38:51 +0000

The UK High Court strikes back: Following last years ruling that The Pirate Bay and its known addresses must be blocked by all major ISPs, the Court has now added three other sites to the ruling. Read more...

Bow-chicka-uh-oh: Man told to pay $1.5m for sharing ten porn movies

Andy Weir — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:45:04 +0000

A federal court in Illinois has ordered a man to pay $1.5m in damages - the largest award of its kind - after evidence proved that he had illegally shared ten adult movies via BitTorrent. Read more...

Software utility makes it easier to access The Pirate Bay

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:34:39 +0100

An industrious user, known as Qarizma, has developed a small utility called ThePiratePatch to allow users to easier circumvent the block, imposed by some ISPs, to access The Pirate Bay. Read more...

uTorrent reverses decision on no opt-out Featured Torrents

Steven Parker — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:00:47 +0100

A few days ago it was announced that uTorrent would start shipping with compulsory "Featured Torrents" with an update rolling out in a few weeks. After user feedback, they've changed their game-plan. Read more...

uTorrent to include Ad supported "Featured Torrents" soon

Steven Parker — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:55:51 +0100

The popular small bittorent client will in the next few weeks include a no opt out "featured torrent" section within the client window in a new move to generate some serious revenue for the company. Read more...

Criminal investigation building against Demonoid in Mexico

Nathan Tsui — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:37:47 +0100

A Demonoid staff member was apparently arrested in Monterrey, Mexico in October 2011, and a criminal case of intellectual property rights violations is being built against the site's owners. Read more...

Demonoid shut down by Ukrainian government

Nathan Tsui — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:20:36 +0100

After an extended period of downtime from a DDoS attack, followed by a period of malicious redirects to malware and spam sites, Demonoid has been shut down by the Ukrainian government. Read more...

BitTorrent Torque set to revolutionize file sharing over browsers

Swagatam Mukherjee — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 15:32:23 +0100

BitTorrent is introducing a new opensource JavaScript interface for web developers and users for experiencing the power of BitTorrent in your browser. Read more...

proMedia hires students to hunt down pirates

Tyler Holman — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:50:39 +0100

Pirate hunter sounds like something from the movies, but it's the job description of about 35 student employees of proMedia, who spend their days tracking down copyright violators and making them pay. Read more...

India blocks The Pirate Bay and Vimeo

Paul Ferson — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:31:45 +0100

Indian internet providers have taken steps to reduce the amount of piracy ongoing in the country, blocking sites such as The Pirate Bay, as well as Vimeo, for seemingly no discernible reason. Read more...

Megaupload was working on a multi-billion dollar IPO

Stefano Elia — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:41:34 +0100

It has been revealed that shortly before being shut down, Megaupload was investigating options for raising money for the organisation through a public stock offering. Read more...

BitTorrent 7.6 Build 26823

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:03:14 +0000

BitTorrent is a BitTorrent client originally created by Ludvig Strigeus (ludde), and is currently maintained by a team of developers at BitTorrent, Inc. A client is a computer program that follows the Read more...

BTJunkie torrent file site shuts down after seven years

John Callaham — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:09:58 +0000

The well known torrent-based file sharing web site BTJunkie has decided to shut down its operations voluntarily after seven years, claiming the recent legal actions against such sites were the reason. Read more...

Tixati 1.83

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:44:52 +0000

Tixati is a free and easy to use BitTorrent client featuring detailed views of all seed, peer, and file transfer properties. Also included are powerful bandwidth charting and throttling capabilities Read more...

The Pirate Bay to stop offering torrent file links

John Callaham — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:22:52 +0000

The Pirate Bay has announced that soon it will stop offering torrent links on its web site. Instead the site will offer its visitors magnet links and has already made the change for its default links. Read more...

Most pirated TV shows of 2011

Tyler Holman — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:01:46 +0000

2011 is almost over, and it's time for us to look back at what we spent the year doing. Here's a list of the most illegally downloaded shows of 2011. Here's a shocker: the numbers are lower than 2010 Read more...

The site that's tracking and publishing your BitTorrent downloads

Andy Weir — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:19:48 +0000

If you've been downloading content via BitTorrent without privacy controls, your download history may now be public knowledge, as a new site exposes downloads made to individual IP addresses. Read more...

Piracy is just fine, Swiss government says

Tyler Holman — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:15:21 +0000

According to the Swiss government, piracy might not be making as big a dent in content owners' pockets as they would have us believe. In fact, piracy hasn't changed their bottom line much at all. Read more...

FrostWire 5.2.10

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:46:13 +0000

FrostWire, a BitTorrent client (formerly a Gnutella client), is a collaborative effort from hundreds of Open Source and freelance developers from around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers Read more...