Scores of people have already downloaded and judging from the comments, it looks like this is the real deal. At the moment only the XBOX 360 version has been released, which means PS3 users might as well wait until 29th of April.

I’m not quite sure if this leaked version is a full featured version or just a demo, because the file is just about 7GB which is quite small. Youtube users have uploaded many videos of intro cinematic’s as well as videos of first few missions have been uploaded. But looks like Rockstar has been able to get Google remove the videos so that they don’t spoil the party.

Obviously the leaked version of GTA IV on torrents is illegal, and could potentially cause you some serious trouble with Microsoft, so it is safer and better if you wait a few more days and get a legal copy of the game, as everybody should – we have all been waiting for the game so long – one week will pass easily.

Also both the PAL and NTSC versions have been leaked. There are also rumors that Rockstar has asked retailers to sell the game before the official date sets in, considering the leak. Also the history seems to repeat itself in weird ways doesn’t it? Even San Andreas was leaked onto the Interwebs a week before the official release.

I won’t paste the links to the torrents, but you can easily find them on Mininova or Piratebay

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 is with great sadness (and not a little relief) that I announce that I will be stepping down as admin of Demonoid, with effect from today.

Demonoid is currently suffering from a number of things, prime amongst these being my distraction with real-world issues, and so I have handed the reins over to a new administrator – a close friend of mine, which I trust completely and has the knowledge and time to take care of the site.

He will, in due course, be making his own announcements about the future of Demonoid. Of course, speculation over the future of the site is fun, but it is ultimately fruitless – you will all, in the near future, become aware of what the future holds. I trust that you will all give your support to the new admin as he finds his feet while he resurrects Demonoid.

Thanks again for your support in making Demonoid what it was and is.
Goodbye and good wishes – it has been a blast!

- Deimos

It surely is great news for the BitTorrent community. I was once upon a time an active user of Demonoid and the quality of torrents over there was simply too good. Demonoid is by far the best when it comes to finding software or weird music/stuff you know you’re not gonna find on IsoHunt or ThePirateBay. Glad to see the demonoid is coming back.

What do you think of this development? Do you think Demonoid can ever be the same again? (I just hope it is!!)

I’m looking forward to Demonoid resurrecting- what a great torrent community

Via TorrentFreak

The iPhone UI also shows details such as the download/upload speed and the number of seeds and peers connected to the torrent, which should be enough to track the progress of your downloads while you are on the move.

The current feature set of the iPhone UI for uTorrent is nowhere near those of the regular WebUI, but it does run pretty well on any iPhone. It requires the uTorrent WebUI to be installed in order to get it running, for more detailed installation instructions visit the iPhone UI homepage.

If you want to run uTorrent on a mobile phone other than the iPhone you could give uTorrent mUI a try. It is a lot less sleeker than the iPhone UI, but the interface does the job, allowing you to manage your Torrents from any mobile phone browser.

Via TorrentFreak

Well things are not going so well in the Bittorrent arena. After recent troubles with TorrentSpy we have lost one of the biggest private Bittorrent trackers in the world, in the form of Oink.cd. Well I have never been able to find myself a invite to Oink but I have to say a lot of people say that if you are a Music fan then Oink is for you.

Well Torrentfreak reports that the admin of Oink has been arrested and the servers of Oink have been raided. Well that means a deluge of people who have been sharing music on Oink are likely to be sued very soon. In a global investigation that had the international Anti Piracy organisations like IFPI and BPI along with Interpol lead to the arrest of the admin and a raid on his father’s house and his employer. 

Jeremy Banks, Head of the IFPI’s Internet Anti-Piracy Unit, said in a reponse to the news: “OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online.”

If you visit the Oink homepage, then a message that reads something like this, greets you.

This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI, Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police 

(FIOD ECD)into suspected illegal music distribution. 

A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the 

site's users

The site was known to be one of the first places where leaked music albums appeared, so anti-piracy outfits such as MediaDefender were keeping a close eye on it. Looks like Online Piracy is headed for a stormy road ahead.

We’ll keep you updated as things develop.

After nearly a week of being down, Demonoid is back up and running, but there are issues that are being ironed out as we speak here. If you are wondering why Demonoid was down, then here is the official response to the downtime.

We received a letter from a lawyer representing the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.

I am sure many of the Bittorrent users worldwide would be happy with the return of Demonoid into action, but the bad news is that, Canadian users have no access to the site anymore, as said in the official response.

The first hope of Demonoid’s return was yesterday when the trackers started to function. I really hope that Demonoid is free from anymore downtimes as this week has been pretty much of a waste for me, because Demonoid was down.

The second most popular BitTorrent tracker on planet earth has returned, that’s the most important thing.

The Site is still down now, and a message reads that : “The latest changes to the site are giving us some problems – We’ll be back soon”

Now this is what happens when you try hard to prevent a software from leaking before its Release. Nero 8 which was supposed to be released officialy on October 1st ended up being released yesterday on Demonoid. The leaked version is real and it has been verified by a lot of downloaders. It comes as an ISO file of about 960MB and you can find it very easily on Mininova or Demonoid.

The Leaked version includes :

• Nero Mobile
• Nero Home
• Nero Scout
• Nero StartSmart
• Nero Burning ROM
• Nero Express
• Nero WaveEditor
• Nero SoundTrax
• Nero Vision
• Nero Recode
• Nero ShowTime
• Nero MediaHome
• Nero PhotoSnap
• Nero CoverDesigner
• Nero Toolkit
• Nero BackItUp
• InCD
• Nero SoundBox
• Nero ImageDrive

Now I wonder what Nero is going to do because one of the most awaited releases from the Nero family has been leaked even before making it to the stores and is there for everyone to download and use.

Tribler works on the Give to Get algorithm rather than the Tit for Tat algorithms Bittorrent has been using for many years now. It allows the users to benefit from faster download speeds without actually using a central servers or trackers as Bittorrent users would know.

You can access Tribler to download conventional Bittorrent files as well as files that use this new concept. Every Tribler Client keeps a track of how many MB’s you have uploaded or shared which inturn is used to determine the speeds at which you get to download.

If Tribler can achieve all these things it is going to make a headway into the future. There are some issues like Network Pollution and Spam that need to be addressed. But then there is definitely a ray of bright light shining in the File Sharing phenomenon.

An Added advantage is that Tribler might be free from Lawsuits as there would be no central server involved, so the MPAA or RIAA might have to sue millions of file sharers. I am just hoping that Tribler becomes a Success.

Via Torrent Freak

Right now the counter on the SuprNova Website says that it will go live within about 2:51:56. I had heard a lot of things about SuprNova when i was a kid in school and it went down later..

I can’t wait for it to go live.. The first weeks after its launch will be used as a public beta test. This means that there will probably be some bugs and minor problems that need to be taken care of, but nothing too serious hopefully.

SuprNova crawls more than 25.000 trackers and has a huge database of more than 1.000.000 torrents with nearly 25.000.000 peers. This means that SuprNova will start where it left of, as one of the biggest BitTorrent indexing sites.

Click here to see SuprNova going live..

And Now they are coming back. The New SuprNova site will go live by the end of this week. The previous owner of SuprNova has given the domain name to The Pirate Bay. TPB is currently the most popular torrent search engine today.

The former owner of Suprnova told TorrentFreak why he decided to donate the domain: “The domain was doing nothing. I know that domain has some nostalgic value and some people would be more then happy to see it back online. I don’t use it, and TPB is the only team that I know will use it correctly.”

Now this makes things even more difficult for the anti-pirate people like the RIAA because it is just so difficult to stop piracy. Even if they manage to remove one site, a dozen more pop up from nowhere. An Interesting battle is on the cards between the pirates and the ant-pirates.

With the relaunch of Suprnova a new community will also be launched that will be linked to both Suprnova and The Pirate Bay. The forums will be hosted on SuprBay.org and are already up and running.

Now what does all this have to do with us. Keeping the 2 sites separate will certainly strengthen the P2P network. If one tracker or domain goes under, the other one would still be going strong. besides, I think there is too much reliance on TPB tracker. ,If it falls just think how many torrents are going to be rendered useless.. 2 sites, 2 trackers, and a huge community overlooking the both of them.

via TorrentFreak