Halite, A Fast And Lightweight BitTorrent Client
Over the past couple of years, the BitTorrent market has been dominated by the likes of uTorrent, Azureus and BitComet, with the three of them taking up as much as 90% marketshare. With such sort of dominance these apps we’ve not seen many alternative solutions in the past few years. Common sense says that it might be next to impossible for a new app in this field to play catch up with the major three, but the newcomer on field Halite (named after a mineral) might just stand a chance.... 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 →
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.
Bittorrent goes to Content Delivery Through CDN
Well the Word that you are all used to hearing by now, Torrents will no longer be only associated with Illegal content obtained from sites like Mininova and Pirate Bay. Now the parent company i.e. BitTorrent is trying its hand at delivering content of Big Media Companies through the Bittorrent Protocol. Bittorrent DNA (Delivery Network Accelerator) as the new CDN (Content Delivery Network) will be called, will aim to provide big media companies and online Video providers, to reduce the Bandwidth costs with P2P information sharing technology. The basic principle... Read The Rest →
Bitlet Improves – Adds Creation of Torrent Files
Back in july I had written about Bitlet, a web based Torrent downloader. At that time Bitlet was just starting up and it had some amazing features, that had the potential to take Bittorrent to lay users. Well things have only got better at the Bitlet camp. They have now added support for Creation of Torrent files. With this step, I feel that we will see more and more stuff popping up on torrent search engines like Mininova etc.
Bitlet : A Web Based Torrent Downloader
Torrents are one of the most popular means of sharing content on the internet. Many a time you might want to tell your friend to download a torrent, but your friend might not be able to get the torrent client up and running and start downloading the torrent. This gives us the need to have something that is so simple to use that even your granny can use it. Well you might be wondering that there is no such thing as a web based torrent downloader. But, there is, and... Read The Rest →
