uTorrent, the most used BitTorrent client in the world with an estimated user base of 150 million, is not happy with its revenue model and its makers are looking to generate money…
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BitTorrent rolls out chat app ‘Bleep’ for Windows desktops
BitTorrent has started sending out email invitations giving access to the pre-alpha version of Bleep for Windows desktop, for early testers.
Netgear NAS devices now support BitTorrent Sync
BitTorrent and Netgear have partnered to run BitTorrent Sync on ReadyNAS range of NAS devices allowing users to sync files on multiple devices without requiring cloud storage. The files can be stored…
Popcorn Time allows users to stream movies like Netflix, but pirated ones
Popcorn Time is a cross-platform tool that started off as an experiment to easily allow users to stream movies over BitTorrent rather than downloading them has developed into something massive and could…
The Pirate Bay facing intermittent downtimes since two weeks
The Pirate Bay has been at the pinnacle of Torrent sites for quite some time now and every time the site goes down for a few minutes or hours, BitTorrent users across…
OpenBitTorrent, PublicBitTorrent down since days
Two of the largest BitTorrent trackers, OpenBitTorrent and PublicBitTorrent, are suffering from prolonged outage with both claiming that the downtime is deliberate and a result of ongoing maintenance that could go on…
uTorrent v3.4 speeds up downloads thanks to new peer selection method
Latest version of the famous BitTorrent client uTorrent, version 3.4, is powered by a completely new peer selection method that promises improved download speeds, “When a bittorrent client joins a swarm, it…
Demonoid tracker is live, but users skeptical
BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is back after 18 months hiatus and is already linked to nearly 400,000 torrent files and over 1 million peers, but suspicions have been raised considering that the tracker…
The Pirate Bay insider reveals the torrent site’s censorship-beating plans
The Pirate Bay had a difficult domain hopping 2013, but team behind the torrent indexing site is steadily progressing towards its goals of beating censorship by circumventing IP and domain name blockades…
The Pirate Bay switches to thepiratebay.pe, says new system will make domain names irrelevant
The Pirate Bay has switched to a new domain name again in the matter of days – from thepiratebay.ac to thepiratebay.pe, and has revealed that the new system they are developing will…
Demonoid coming back soon, resurrection in progress
Demonoid, which went offline over a year ago, is showing signs of life and it will soon be resurrected claim people behind the world’s largest semi-private torrent tracker. Demonoid went down in…
BitTorrent removed from Google piracy search filter?
Recent spike in search for keywords like ‘BitTorrent’ and ‘uTorrent’ indicate that Google may have removed these two terms from its piracy filter. In a bid to reduce piracy and reduce the…