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Magnetiser Downloads Torrents When No Torrent File Is Available
10:00AM Adam Pash | Firefox: If you’ve used a BitTorrent search engine that lists lots of torrents but doesn’t actually host any torrent files (like Torrentz), most of the time you still have to go to other third-party sites for the download. Not so with Magnetiser. More »
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Libox Shares Your Music, Movies And More On A Private Network
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac: Libox makes it easy to share music, movies and photos with your friends in a private P2P network. More »
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Google Removes Pirate Bay’s Front Page From Search Results
4:00AM Adam Pash | BitTorrent web site TorrentFreak reports that Google has removed the front page of popular BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay from their search results due to a DMCA takedown request, regardless of the fact that there are no torrents available to download on TPB’s front page.
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PeerBlock Protects Your Privacy With Less Annoyance
6:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Previously mentioned PeerBlock—a fork of the inactive but still popular Peer Guardian 2—has just released an update complete with various bug fixes and a signed driver that should eliminate some Windows 7 and Vista UAC annoyances. Other than that, it’s just an all-around more stable release than when we last posted about it. More »
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Automatic Downloads New Torrents…Automatically
2:30AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X: Free preference pane Automatic lets you subscribe to virtually any content delivered via RSS, automatically downloading everything matching your preferences. That means podcasts, videocasts, and feeds of your favourite torrents—like for your favourite TV show. More »
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uTorrent 2.0 Beta Brings Fixes And Improvements, Adds UDP Support
9:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: uTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client on the planet, has released a new 2.0 beta complete with bug fixes and new features, including UDP tracker support. More »
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PeerBlock Protects Your Downloading Privacy From Prying Eyes
7:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free application PeerBlock is a fork of Peer Guardian 2, the popular application designed to protect your privacy when downloading, updating the two-year-old application with various bug fixes and improvements. More »
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EzRSS Provides BitTorrent Feeds Of Your Favorite TV Shows
8:00AM Adam Pash | Web site ezRSS is yet another web site designed to help you “subscribe” to your favourite TV shows via BitTorrent so your download automatically starts as soon as a new episode is available (known as broadcatching). More »
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RIAA Says DRM Is Dead
9:00PM Adam Pash | The RIAA have finally declared DRM dead for music, according to all-things-BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak. You won’t see us arguing, having avoided DRMed music like the plague ever since it started gaining ground in the post-Napster 2.0 world, but the steady decline of digital rights management in recent months has been a welcome move all around. More »
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