Posts Tagged ‘BitTorrent

As sites like the Pirate Bay move away from the hosting of download-directing .torrent files, magnet links, one of the pieces of BitTorrent’s future, are becoming more viable. Now there’s TorrIndex, a torrent search and listing site that only offers download-aggregating magnet links. While somebody still has to host .torrent files for files to get [...]

In October 2007, Alan Ellis, the owner of the popular invite-only BitTorrent community OiNK.cd, was arrested in Middlesbrough, UK. The first person in the UK to be prosecuted for illegal file-sharing, Ellis was just found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud in a Teesside Crown Court. When the IFPI raided OiNK more than two years [...]

Comcast has been hampering the peer-to-peer downloading protocol BitTorrent, and a federal appeals court will likely reject the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to sanction the company for it. The FCC moved against Comcast as part of an overall strategy to defend and promote Net Neutrality. Proponents of Net Neutrality — which include most Internet search [...]


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