Tag Archives: utorrent
Sky blocks the Pirate Bay – Pointless and hypocritical?
Its now a few days since Sky blocked its customers from Pirate Bay after the High Court ruling encompassing UK ISP’s. In the time its taken for ISP’s to get … Continue reading
No P2P for Irish Vodaphone customers? – and then a change of mind?
Vodaphone, the provider of mobile and broadband services has allegedly prohibited the use of p2p protocols on its networks albeit verbally. Whilst a p2p blow to the phone service would … Continue reading
NewsBytes – Thursday 2nd September 2010
uTorrent for Linux nearly here! I reported a few months back that due to popular demand (so much for an alleged 0.8% Linux usage) the makers of uTorrent announced that … Continue reading
DCC, Bittorrent and Usenet – Is Bittorrent so great?
I’ve written many articles touching on this subject, but I wanted to look at it with a little more detail as whilst we see a massive surge in Net traffic … Continue reading
uTorrent Linux edition – People want it because….?
It is being reported that the popular Windows Bittorrent Client uTorrent is finally coming to Linux after many years. We reported recently that on the “idea bank” on the uTorrent … Continue reading
Users want a Linux port of uTorrent?
uTorrent probably ranks as the most popular torrent client on the web and at any given time (and on any swarm) you can almost guarantee that the majority of peers/seeders … Continue reading
Digital Economy Bill – My interpretation
Over the last few months Ive covered many topics on piracy. Ive tried to suggest possible alternatives although from what Ive seen the argument falls into two distinct categories, those … Continue reading
Piratebay – Pay to torrent?
Its been announced that the Piratebay.org, one the definitive site for all the “IP liberal” is now to become a monthly pay site after being offered 7.8million by the Global … Continue reading
Pirate Bay hit by spam in another Windows attack?
Continuing on from a previous article in regards to Peer Gaurdian, I stumbled upon news that the Pirate Bay has been hit by a spam attack. Oh dear. It is … Continue reading
