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Stop Downloading Fakes and Junk From BitTorrent

Jordan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:16:10 +0000

Many experienced file-sharers can’t understand why relative novices manage to download so much junk from BitTorrent. Fake downloads that never finish, video files which refuse to play, movies that require special players and unwatchable video are easily avoided. But how do they do it?

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The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent

Jordan — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:22:07 +0000

The guys from The Pirate Bay are always working on interesting side-projects, but there is one in particular that’s so significant, it might be the future of filesharing. For a while now, they have been working on a brand new protocol – which may come to replace BitTorrent in the near future.

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Comcast Blocking extends past Torrents.

Jordan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:14:39 +0000

In the wake of several reports showing that Comcast is targeting BitTorrent traffic with forged TCP reset packets, new evidence demonstrates that Comcast is targeting Gnutella and Lotus Notes, too. Wait… Lotus Notes?

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The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public

Jordan — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:55:27 +0000

When TorrentFreak reported that Media Defender (MD) was behind the video site MiiVi, they cast doubt on us. Now, in what is surely the biggest BitTorrent leak ever, nearly 700mb of MD’s emails have gone public. When MD’s Randy Saaf found out we rumbled MiiVi he said, “This is really fucked.”

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79% of Americans would rather download movies illegally

Jordan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:55:21 +0000

US consumers are still downloading movies illegally despite the growing availability of subscription based movie download services according to a study conducted by Advanis Inc. “The industry can respond to this stubborn core of piracy in one of two ways: “It can spend its time and resources pursuing pirates, and…”

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ISPs fight against encrypted BitTorrent downloads

Jordan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:16:15 +0000

BitTorrent clients such as Azureus added a feature that encrypted torrent traffic to try and get around ISP roadblocks. Now, a company called Allot Communications is claiming that their new hardware product, the NetEnforcer, is the first device that will seek out and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic.

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