Posts Tagged ‘torrent’
More Tips for Torrenting Your Brains Out [BitTorrent]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 11th, 2009
Just about every BitTorrent trick you need to know that we haven't shown you, Maximum PC covers in their BitTorrent guide, like remote management, rolling your own torrents, and even getting somebody else to do the dirty work for you.
The other major bit they're missing—where to get torrents where the policies are a little, um, flexible—we've got you covered. If you've got more tips, shower the comments with 'em. [Maximum PC]
LaCie’s Network Space 2 will assimilate your data, resistance is futile
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 4th, 2009
Continue reading LaCie's Network Space 2 will assimilate your data, resistance is futile
Filed under: Software
LaCie's Network Space 2 will assimilate your data, resistance is futile originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | CommentsFCC to propose new net neutrality rules disallowing data discrimination
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on September 18th, 2009
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
FCC to propose new net neutrality rules disallowing data discrimination originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsFive Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives [BitTorrent]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on August 21st, 2009
The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harboring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn't mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good.
Demonoid
Demonoid, besides having a solid community and good quality torrents—no porn, exceedingly few viruses—also operates the other major torrent tracker besides The Pirate Bay. (A tracker is what help makes the whole BitTorrent system work, since it makes sure every peer's talking to each other properly.) It doesn't have the best selection around, but what most of what you'll find there is quality. The catch is that you need to snag an invitation from a member or when they periodically dole them out to the public.
Mininova.org
Mininova's always one of our preferred torrent sites—tons of torrents from multiple trackers, not a lot of crap in the interface, and the search isn't bad. Actually, it's kind of the like The Pirate Bay, but with less crap and fewer headaches. The catch now is that they're slowly implementing a new copyright filter to keep copyrighted torrents from being uploaded. But you should still be able to find True Blood on there, no problem.
ISOHunt
ISOHunt is a BitTorrent and P2P search engine that's got what feels like the most sophisticated search engine of the bunch. But like the others, you just punch in what you're looking for, and it pulls up results you can sort by seeds, date or whatever. It has one of the most massive indices of any site, so it's a good thing the search engine is up to it. Still, with a lot of torrents, it can be hard to find exactly what you're looking for.
BTJunkie
BTJunkie claims to be the largest torrent search engine of all, with around 5,000-25,000 new torrents added to the index daily. The quantity doesn't seem noticeably better than the other sites listed above, however. Also, the interface is really ugly. But you know, it's there if you need it.
EZTV
If you've downloaded a TV show, whatever site you snagged it from, chances are, it came from these guys. They're the most prolific TV rippers around, and usually have solid quality rips of shows up within hours of airing. If you're interested in TV, you might as well just go to the source—their site points to wherever their files are hosted, so you don't have to search through a million different sites to find the right EZTV torrent.
The whole scene is admittedly a bit depressing now, after years of high profile closures—Suprnova, OiNK TorrentSpy and LokiTorrent—so these are what's left of the big sites. And even they're not guaranteed to survive. Demonoid went offline for several months back in 2007-2008, Mininova has a copyright filter attached to it, and really, any site is just a police raid away from possibly going down. So tread carefully, and don't get too attached to any of them.
And of course, you should drop your own suggestions in the comments.
Ahoy! Cloned Pirate Bay Site Sets Sail [The Pirate Bay]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on August 21st, 2009
Remember that Pirate Bay user who archived the site's entire torrent index earlier this week? It's available for all to download, but he's now used it to create a full replica site. You can check it out at BTArena.net. [TorrentFreak]
Get The Pirate Bay’s Torrent Archive With One Massive 21.3GB Download [The Pirate Bay]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on August 17th, 2009
With the Pirate Bay set to close in the next few days, one anonymous user has put together a single massive archive of all 873,671 torrent files hosted on its servers.
Remember: this is a torrent file index, not the petabytes of data they link to.
The anonymous uploader who compiled this huge torrent told TorrentFreak that he wanted to have a backup of the site in case all torrents mysteriously disappear after the site is sold. "I suppose I want us to have assurances. If the TPB deal disappoints us, we can just put it up again," he said.
Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay is also hosting what it calls "the $675,000 mixtape"—a collection of the 30 songs that student Joel Tenenbaum was found guilty of sharing, and then fined that amount for.
[The Pirate Bay via TorrentFreak –Thanks Mark!]
Court gives Pirate Bay ten days to scuttle connection to Netherlands
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 30th, 2009

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Networking
Court gives Pirate Bay ten days to scuttle connection to Netherlands originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsWindows 7 RTM Leaked on BitTorrent [Windows]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 24th, 2009
It should come as no surprise—but Windows 7 Build 7600.16385, which Microsoft deemed the RTM, has been unceremoniously leaked. A Chinese 64-bit version was first posted on torrent sites on July 16th with an English version released later that day. As always, grab at your own risk. [The New York Times]
VLC, the Internet’s Favorite Media Player, Hits Version 1.0 [Media]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on July 7th, 2009
With "many new features," like AirTunes streaming, support for new HD codecs and formats and a ton of bug fixes, VLC—the most versatile media player around—is officially worth of 1.0 status. Download it here. [VLC - Thanks Chris!]





