uTorrent 1.8 is Released, Mac Version on the Way
Its been a over six months since we last saw an update to everyone’s favorite BitTorrent client. The uTorrent team has released version 1.8 of their BitTorrent client, with significant improvements and updates. Added the already pent up excitement about the new uTorrent there is also a word that a Mac version of uTorrent is on the way.. Good news for all Mac users out there.. But I feel that a stable Mac build is quite a few months away. We’ve had to wait for quite a while for this... Read The Rest →
Demonoid To Come Back From The Ashes
Finally one of the leading BitTorrent website of its times is rising from the ashes. Demonoid one of the leading private BitTorrent trackers was pulled down by CRIA in November last year. Deimos the admin of Demonoid has finally handed over the reins of Demonoid to a fellow admin whom he apparently trusts with the comeback of Demonoid. Deimos will not be the admin of Demonoid anymore because he is tied with some personal real life issues. Here’s the message he posted in the Subdemon forums : Hello Everyone, It... Read The Rest →
ImageShack Starts Free BitTorrent Download Service
The extremely popular media hosting site ImageShack has just begun a free BitTorrent downloading service that allows you to download torrents straight from ImageShack servers, and later download them from ImageShack via a HTTP link. The Torrent download service is at the moment in a public beta, but nonetheless it works as advertised. Just point ImageShack to the torrent file either via URL or by uploading the torrent file itself. The download will begin immediately and once it is completed you can easily download the files to your computer. Services... Read The Rest →
Harvard Site Hacked And Leaked Onto BitTorrent
The Website of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences seems to have had what you call major security breach. The whole of the website complete with Server backups, Databases of Students, Site Databases, and the Complete directory structure have been leaked onto BitTorrent. At the time of writing this, a 125MB Zip File is being tracked by Pirate Bay. According to Torrentfreak, the Harvard University website has become a victim of a major security breach. A Torrent that is currently available on Piratebay claims to be a... Read The Rest →
Mininova Serves its One Millionth Torrent
The last quarter of 2007 hasn’t been particularly good for the BitTorrent community. We have seen the shutdown of some popular BitTorrent Trackers like OiNK and Demonoid and a lot more countries worldwide have been blocking Torrent Search Engines. In the US Internet companies are prevent access to the BitTorrent protocol itself, thereby preventing users from sharing files. Yes 2007 has been the year when Torrent Related sites where shutdown faster than they were born, but finally we have a good news from Mininova that has just reached a milestone... Read The Rest →
Demonoid is Dead – Site Pulled down by CRIA
This is shocking isn’t it. The Biggest loss to the Bit Torrent world is here. Demonoid is dead and is no longer available for anyone in the world. The CRIA managed to put pressure on the company renting servers to Demonoid and its been pulled down. Here is what the message on the site reads : The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding. This is... Read The Rest →
The Pirate Bay to Bring Back OiNK!
The Pirate Bay continues to impress me. First they got old skool Torrent Tracker Suprnova back up and running and now they plan to do the same to OiNK which fell dead last week. The Piratebay plans to call the replacement to OiNK! as BOiNK which i guess means a bigger and a better OiNK. BOiNK is an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid. The replacement will be released within a week and should be available on the BOiNK.cd... Read The Rest →
Ssshhh! OiNK Admin Speaks
Well I am sure you have read about the shutdown of Oink by the IFPI and BPI a few days back here on dailyApps. Well there were quite a lot of questions that raced through my mind and after spending endless hours on the Oink IRC, i could find a few answers to the questions that were literally burning my head. Here are a few answers that I lifted directly from the IRC logs from here. I am posting the chat transcript for you all to read and ponder upon.... Read The Rest →
Leopard Retail ISO Available on BitTorrent
I have to say Apple has done a brilliant job so far to prevent the retail version of Leopard from leaking on BitTorrent this long, but unfortunately they couldn’t keep things tight any longer and now we have Leopard all over the BitTorrent planet. I for one don’t own a Mac so downloading Leopard doesn’t make much sense, but I know a lot of people who want to download the Retail version thru BitTorrent and I have received over a dozen mails from people asking me where I could download... Read The Rest →
New Windows XP SP3 Beta Build 3205 Leaked to BitTorrent
Well this is the 3rd major leak for Microsoft, this month, first it was Windows Vista SP1, then Home Server and now its Windows XP SP3′s latest build that was released to Connect testers just a few days back. The latest build of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been leaked on BitTorrent and is available on almost all popular torrent trackers.
