Category Archive for ‘BitTorrent’ at T. Longren

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Elitetorrents Operator Gets Jail Time

Published by Tyler on 27 October 2006 in BitTorrent, Internet and Personal. 0 Comments 1 Star

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Elitetorrents was shutdown over a year ago. Grant Stanley, age 23, was the main operator of Elitetorrents. Elitetorrents was one of the most popular private BitTorrent trackers a couple years back. Unfortunately, it was based out of the United States.
Anyway, Grant has been sentenced to 5 months in prison, and 5 months [...]

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Don’t Pay For BitTorrent

Published by Tyler on 7 September 2006 in BitTorrent, Internet and Personal. 3 Comments 1 Star

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TorrentFreak has a post warning users not to pay for BitTorrent. Apparently, there’s lots of ads circulating that try to dupe the viewer into purchasing a piece of software that is most likely free.
Most of them are lured by misleading advertisement, and flashy banners. They end up paying $3-$30 for a completely free application. [...]

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John Edwards Using BitTorrent

Published by Tyler on 21 July 2006 in BitTorrent, Internet and Personal. 0 Comments 1 Star

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John Edwards, a democratic presidential candidate in 2004 is using BitTorrent to distribute his campaign media. He’s hosting his torrent files at MoveDigital, a company that basically sells bandwidth and uses bittorrent to distribute files once they’re nicely seeded. Here’s a piece from their FAQ:
Unlike other services, MoveDigital only deducts bandwidth from your [...]

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Windows Vista

Published by Tyler on 28 July 2005 in BitTorrent, Internet and Personal. 3 Comments 1 Star

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So, the Windows Vista Beta 1 was released yesterday. It hit MSDN sometime yesterday morning. It’s all over BitTorrent networks now too. I’m gonna give it a shot tonight as I have an extra PC to try it out on. I really don’t think I’ll like it that well. Probably [...]

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Major Torrent Site Closed

Published by Tyler on 25 May 2005 in BitTorrent, Govt. and Internet. 6 Comments 1 Star

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As many already know, a major torrent site, EliteTorrents.org was shutdown today. First there were reports the site had been DNS hijacked. Eventually their was a page up claiming to be from the FBI. Many thought it was a fake or even a site defacement. Then ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs [...]

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BitTorrent Search Engine

Published by Tyler on 23 May 2005 in BitTorrent, Internet, Open Source and Search. 7 Comments

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Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, says there’ll soon be a torrent search engine on bittorrent.com. There’ll be sponsored links mixed in with the search results, which isn’t anything new. They’re going to index all types of torrents I guess, even ones that help people obtain copyrighted material. I think this is pretty [...]

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