The Pirate Bay, which is the most popular bittorrent site on the Internet, recently tapped the power of social platform to expand its market by adding web widget in Facebook, according to TechRadar report. While the controversial trial between the bittorrent giant and recording industry is still ongoing, the Pirate Bay has recently launched a [...]
Few years ago, when bittorrent was introduced to Internet users, the recording industry has immediately expressed its concern over this file-sharing protocol thinking that this might be used in piracy. While it cannot be denied that bittorent is being used by some companies to illegally distribute copyrighted materials, communication experts believe that the record labels [...]
American Idol producers recently announced their support to the controversial policy called “three-strike” rule that allows Internet service providers (ISP) to cut off connection of users who are proven to download illegal copies for the third time. FremantleMedia, producers of the popular reality TV show, said that there is an immediate need for a stringent [...]
United States: A research firm on Tuesday said more American consumers are buying digital music from online stores and bittorrent sites which cause slumping sales of compact discs in the market. According to NDP Group’s annual Digital Music Study, sales of digital music rose by more than 8 million last year compared to 2007 which [...]
I have thousands of files and media that I want to back up, and yet I haven’t found a good file hosting website anywhere in which I can upload as many files and download them as much as I can. A lot of file hosting service providers do this in order to get people to [...]
Canada: Bittorrent tracker ISOHunt has recently asked the legal court to provide a ruling that would tell if the website has violated the copyright law to end the legal charges filed by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) which accused the site of committing infringement offenses. During a court proceeding, ISOHunt’s legal representative Arthur Grant [...]
In celebration of its first year on the bittorrent market, Hulu introduced on Thursday its new social networking tools that will provide users interactive communication experience that will allow them to interact and share ideas to other people. Called the Hulu Friends, this social platform has been integrated to the bittorrent’s massive collection of videos, [...]
In celebration of its first year anniversary, popular bittorrent site Hulu has announced the winners of “Most Favorite Videos” including critically-acclaimed television series including The Office and Firefly. Other winners of Hulu’s “Most Favorite Videos” were some popular clips from Saturday Night Live (SNL), Obama’s presidential inauguration, and other remarkable political events in the United [...]
Music industry has long been in war against P2P and bittorrent sites for many years, but in an unusual turn of event, an Indie music group has sought the service of popular file-sharing site iMesh to distribute its music to a wider audience. According to paidContent:UK report, Indie music group Merlin and P2P site iMesh [...]
Alpha Networks, a company that provides interactive technologies, has recently introduced its new product which is a Bittorrent Media Player that allows users to search torrent files and download these without the need of using a computer. This media player has been designed to track peer-to-peer (P2P) sites or those which use Bittorrent protocol while [...]