‘ BitTorrent ’

KickassTorrents - A Fast-Growing Torrent Indexer

November 02, 09 by sharky   3,212  views  

Rarely do we come across a public torrent site that’s worth writing extensively about. Most torrent indexers are little more than carbon copies of each other with few, if any, discernible features that make them stand out from the rest. You know the sites we’re talking about - AliveTorrents, ExtraTorrent, BTMon, TorrentFly, Torrentz - while great, it’s somewhat redundant to bookmark more than one. But there is one torrent indexer that’s doing things a little differently, and that’s www.KickassTorrents.com.

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Demonoid Set to Return, But With Heavy Losses

September 27, 09 by sharky   24,896  views  

Offline for almost two weeks now and counting, many Demonoid users feared the worst: here we go again. After a lengthy 6-month absence from November 2007 to April 2008 - Demonoid rebounded well, and dutifully reclaimed the top spot among private trackers (if you can classify them as private). Inarguably one of the Internet’s most prosperous & prolific trackers of all-time, Demonoid is poised to make their return, albeit - the news is bleak.

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The Strange PirateBay, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Other Trackers

August 30, 09 by sharky   12,731  views  

Call this our obligatory TPB article.

We’ve kept out of the spotlight when it concerns anything newsworthy related to ThePirateBay. Why? Well, to keep it short: Firstly, we don’t fancy FSF for being known as a leading "news" blog; Secondly, in the end TPB exiting the scene really won’t have a large impact on public BitTorrent, anyways. So, after answering more than a just few emails in regards to what might happen to the BitTorrent filesharing protocol once TPB is RIP, it’s time to set a few things straight.

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CakeTorrent Makes Torrent Downloading a Snap!

July 08, 09 by sharky   5,185  views  

As one of the more knowledgeable computer users among most of the people I know, I’ve had a lot of people ask me how to download things from the Internet, or how to use BitTorrent. After explaining to them what torrents are, how to install µTorrent, how to find and download .torrent files, etc. - well, the whole process can be a bit much for some people. Especially for those just starting out.

There’s a new site called CakeTorrent (www.caketorrent.com) with the sole purpose of making BitTorrent as easy as possible to use for people who have never heard of it. Or just quick and easy for the rest of us. Searching to downloading is just 3 clicks from the front page, and includes a mashup of torrent search engines with a browser based BitTorrent client - so that everything works without the need to download .torrent files or browse torrent sites. Users don’t even need to install a BitTorrent client on the home computer - it’s that simple. And of course, it’s free!

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ExtraTorrent.com - A Rising Star on Public BitTorrent

July 01, 09 by sharky   7,771  views  

The timing couldn’t have been any better for ExtraTorrent.com. In the wake of shocking news that rocked the P2P community with The Pirate Bay selling out and even removing its tracker from public torrents; and Mininova filtering out illegal content - torrenters are being forced to move on to greener pastures. ExtraTorrent.com is one such torrent site that has picked up the pace, quickly skyrocketing to become one of the Internet’s top contenders among public torrent indexers.

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Easy aXXo - A Torrent Site For Real aXXo Releases Only

March 04, 09 by sharky   15,037  views  

[Disclaimer - experienced private tracker users, hide your eyes]. Looking at traffic statistics for torrent sites, one could only correctly surmise that the vast majority of torrenters are still steadfastly using public trackers such as Mininova and The Pirate Bay. And when it comes to movies, only one name generates a gigantic buzz for the latest film releases - and that’s aXXo - Hollywood’s reviled nemesis.

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New Torrent Ideas - 10 Brand-New BitTorrent Projects

February 10, 09 by sharky   7,638  views  

Here at FSF, we’re always on the lookout for the next big BitTorrent idea. From the latest hot new trackers to the discovery of torrent utilities & online services, we try to cover it all. Here we present you with 10 new & exciting BitTorrent projects that are currently underway: BitSmash, Top-Trackers, BirdTorrent, FreeTorrentHosting, MinTorrent, TorrentPump, FreshTorrents, Torrentshare, SpaTorrent and TorrentHub. Enjoy the read!

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2009 Oscars - Download The Oscar Torrents Now

February 07, 09 by sharky   11,360  views  

When OscarTorrents.com first took to the stage two years ago, they not only provided torrent coverage of the (leaked) 2007 Oscar-nominated films, but incorporated ‘user-voting’ into the mix. What began as a successful public torrent campaign that reached over 1 million visitors in the span of just two months was rather short-lived, however. For unknown reasons, OscarTorrents did not return in 2008. Flash ahead to 2009’s season which brings us a record-breaking 26 of 26 Oscar-nominated films available on P2P before the Academy Awards even happens (finished just today with the P2P release of Rachel Getting Married, according to Andy Biao from Waxy.org) - we’d assume this to be the perfect comeback year for OscarTorrents. Sadly, this was not to be.

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TopBT on Vuze - A Topology-Aware BitTorrent Client

January 23, 09 by sharky   8,909  views  

In an article published back in October, we reported about a new technology for BitTorrent called TopBT. TopBT was originally built on LH-ABC, an open-source BitTorrent client - but it has been vastly improved into a new version of Vuze. Unlike most currently existing popular BitTorrent clients such as Vuze, BitTorrent™, and µTorrent, the unique feature of TopBT is, it actively discovers its network proximity to its connected peers. It does so through actively sending packets to those peers, and inspecting their responses. Besides the topology-awareness, TopBT also considers network transmission rates to its peers, so that it can download fast. Not only that, but TopBT also saves unnecessary BitTorrent traffic that clogs up the Internet, which is great for those who are bandwidth-capped by their ISP. But is TopBT faster than µTorrent? In our tests: Yes.

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Coda.FM - A Fresh New Torrent Site For Music Albums

January 04, 09 by sharky   9,349  views  

One thing that’s always been missing from the torrent world is a public tracker that focuses strictly on music, and nothing else. Welcome to Coda.fm, the world’s first public music-only torrent indexer! While there’s plenty of music to be found on Mininova & The Pirate Bay, Coda.fm offers a refreshing approach to how music torrents should be displayed; there’s music genre categories, album art, metadata, track listings, album reviews and even artist information. While Coda.fm won’t replace your What.cd or Waffles account, we can assure this will become a hit among public torrenters.

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