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The Pirate Bay Plans Robot Drone Servers to Dodge Law Enforcement

admin — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:50:24 +0000

File-sharing site The Pirate Bay is planning to build robot drone planes to host its servers in the sky. That way, the thinking goes, law enforcement won’t be able to seize their machines without committing overtly aggressive acts such as firing the flying servers down with anti-aircraft weaponry. “We can’t limit ourselves to hosting things [...]

Ce pagube produc DC++ si torrentele

admin — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:16:07 +0000

Industria muzicală aproape că nu a dus-o niciodată mai rău ca în era digitală. Conform unei analize a RIAA, torrentele și programele de file sharing gen DC++ au adus industria muzicală la cifre comparabile cu perioada de dinainte 1985, anul în care apăreau CD-urile. Astfel, de la cifra de 15 miliarde de dolari, vârful atins [...]

The REAL connection speeds for Internet users across the world (charts)

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:39:34 +0000

How fast are Internet connections across the world? How fast are they in your country? This article examines the real-world connection speeds for people in the top 50 countries on the Internet, i.e. the countries with the most Internet users. This list of countries ranges from China at number 1 with 420 million Internet users, [...]

The Pirate Bay Couples With Meezoog Belowdecks To Launch Dating Site

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:00:29 +0000

In a bizarre move, The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, is partnering with social dating site Meezoog to launch an online dating site PirateDate.com, to take on Match.com, Zoosk and others. The Pirate Bay, which has had a tumultuous year, is launching a dating network around sharing. PirateDate will allow singles to share [...]

P2P traffic still in decline, one-click hosters are benefiting

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:27:37 +0000

New data from Arbor Networks shows that global P2P traffic is continuing to decline. In fact, P2P apps are the fastest declining application group, according to a report presented at the 77th IETF meeting in Anaheim last week. Here’s a graph showing the rate of decline, in relationship to overall Internet traffic, from 2007 to [...]

Tips to increase BitTorrent download speeds

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:31:55 +0000

Striving to get the most out of your bandwidth? Struggling with slow BitTorrent download speeds? The first step is to see if your BitTorrent client is properly configured through the settings – a simple tweak here and there can drastically improve the download speed. Here are some other suggestions to fine-tune your downloading to maximize [...]

The Best Online Streaming Movie Sites on the ‘Net

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:30:31 +0000

A review of Movie ‘Streaming’ Websites, and why it works. Websites that feature full-length movies shown as ’streaming’ video have taken great strides in becoming quite remarkable. Some even offer films & clips in High-Definition (HD). So how do they get away with it, you ask? Simple! They don’t host the movies – just the [...]

Porn and BitTorrent? – Yes, the Rumors are True!

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:28:45 +0000

Yep, it’s true. You read it here first. There’s pr0n on BitTorrent sites. Pornography and the Internet go together like peanut butter and jelly; so why should BitTorrent miss the boat? They haven’t. Pr0n, being a multi-billion dollar industry, has not eluded both public and private torrent sites alike. Love it or hate it – [...]

Crack/Keygen Sites That Are Safe To Use

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:26:57 +0000

lindly searching the web for cracks & keygens is about as smart as using Limewire to search for antivirus software – something not well-advised. Undoubtedly and unfortunately, the number of crack sites with overtones of a malicious agenda heavily outweigh sites that just want to serve up the honest goods. Having said that, there actually [...]

How To Speed Up Torrents with Low Seeders

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:24:51 +0000

Here’s a ridiculously easy tip to squeeze out as many users as you can on a dead or dying torrent. It’s particularly handy when a torrent stops near the end, and/or the seed count is listed as zero. Having said that, I’ve also noticed that it helps to increase download speeds from healthy torrents, as [...]