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µTorrent 2.0 Self Throttles So ISPs Don’t Have To…What?
4:15AM Danny Allen | This is weird: The next version of µTorrent, currently in beta, uses an updated version of the BitTorrent protocol that decreases your speed (usually uploads) when it detects network congestion. Will it slow downloads? Not necessarily…apparently. More »
Business
Pirate Bay Unplugged By Swedish Court (Already Back Again, Sorta)
4:15PM Danny Allen | Like a T-1000 that just won’t die, the Pirate Bay simply jumped servers after its ISP pulled the plug yesterday. Update: But the site bounced back (after some ups-and-downs overnight), and here’s an excerpt from their defiant (and funny) response. More »
Business
Surprise! The Pirate Bay’s Buyers Are Extremely Shady
3:30AM John Herrman | Heroically snatched from near-death by a mysterious, benevolent gaming company, the Pirate Bay had a rosy future laid out ahead of it. But hey, that company? They’re turning out to be kind of rotten and possibly fraudulent. More »
Online
How To: Use The Heck Out Of Usenet
4:00AM John Herrman | Usenet: Everyone’s heard of it, nobody uses it. This is ridiculous. Not only is Usenet a fantastic way to download—it’s not that hard to use. Here’s how to kick your torrent habit once and for all, with Usenet More »
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Five Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives
5:20AM Matt Buchanan | The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harbouring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn’t mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good. More »
Music
Download The Pirate Bay’s Complete Archive With One Torrent
8:30PM Danny Allen | With the Pirate Bay set to close in the next few days, one anonymous user has compiled a single massive archive of all 873,671 torrent files hosted on its servers. More »
Online
Court Orders File-Sharer To Pay $80,000 Per Song To RIAA
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | A delusional Minnesota court has ordered Jammie Thomas, wanton criminal Kazaa user, to pay a total of $US1.92 million for sharing 24 songs. As my own little protest, I’m going to illegally download Metallica’s entire discography. And I hate Metallica. More »
Online
The Pirate Bay’s Ipredator Provides Safe, Anonymous Protection From the Law for $US6
9:20AM Matt Buchanan | The Pirate Bay’s new IP-masking anonymity service for paranoid pirates—Ipredator, whose name also plays off Sweden’s new IPRED anti-piracy law—already has over 100,000 sign-ups. More »
Networks
AT&T’s Lame New Terms of Service Hate Mobile Video From Sling and P2P
3:55AM Matt Buchanan | That AT&T’s new terms of service for wireless frowns on snagging video over P2P isn’t surprising, but the fact that it effectively prohibits Slinging video to phones is mildly shocking and definitely lame. More »
Entertainment
