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httpTorrents Downloads Torrents Via Your Browser
8:30AM Whitson Gordon | BitTorrent is extremely useful for lots of downloading and file-sharing, but if a less tech-inclined friend of yours doesn’t understand BitTorrent or you can’t install a BitTorrent client, new website httpTorrents lets you download files of popular torrents directly via HTTP. More »
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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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ItsHidden Offers Free And Anonymous Torrenting
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re of the mindset that what you do with your BitTorrent client is your business and not that of people snooping, sniffing, and prying at your packets along the way, ItsHidden offers free VPN server to anonymise your activity. More »
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8:30AM Angus Kidman | If your ISP offers separate peak and off-peak download limits, it makes sense to schedule large downloads to happen overnight and not risk being shaped or paying excess fees each month. But not all consumers seem willing to go along with that strategy. More »
How Selfish Users Can Mess With Off-Peak ISP Deals
8:30AM Angus Kidman | If your ISP offers separate peak and off-peak download limits, it makes sense to schedule large downloads to happen overnight and not risk being shaped or paying excess fees each month. But not all consumers seem willing to go along with that strategy. 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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Pirate Bay To Start Charging Users Monthly Fee
11:00PM Azadeh Ensha | Late last month, we told you that the recently acquired Pirate Bay may introduce a “compensation model”. Now comes confirmation that the new owners, Swedish company Global Gaming Factory, will introduce paid subscriptions. Under the new management, all Pirate Bay users will have to pay a monthly fee to access the site. How much users will have to fork over hasn’t been determined, but Bay executive Wayne Rosso says that “the more files people share, the lower it will be.” [via TorrentFreak]
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Speed Up Your Downloads By Choosing The Fastest Torrents
4:30AM Adam Pash | Even if you know everything there is to know about BitTorrent apps, your downloads can still be slow as molasses. It’s not you, it’s the torrent. All-things-BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak discusses how to speed up your downloads by picking the fastest torrents. More »
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Windows 7 ISO Verifier Ensures Your Downloads Are Legit
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: The final RTM release of Windows 7 should be released later this month, and blogger and developer Long Zheng has created a small application designed to verify that your download is the real thing. More »
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Pirate Bay Could Be Purchased, May Start “Compensation Model”
10:40PM Kevin Purdy | From the News That Sounds Like a Prank Dept.: The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent-powered scourge of media conglomerates and copyright enforcers everywhere, announced that it “may get acquired by Global Gaming Factory,” a network of internet cafés and gaming centres, to the tune of about $US8 million. The recently convicted site runners claim on their blog that users will leave the site in droves if the “new owners screw around with the site”—a fairly good guess, we’d think—but owners-to-be GGF state their intention to “introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid” for downloads. Meanwhile, the site has decentralised its torrent tracking and hosting. [via TorrentFreak]
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