Bittorrent Sites Archive

  • Hold onto your hat: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 leaked

    Hold onto your hat: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 leaked

    Still using BitTorrent? Using a Mac? Want to try out a leaked beta of Microsoft Office 2011? Clearly you see where I'm going with this.

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  • Warner Bros. UK offers internship to spy on BitTorrent users

    Warner Bros. UK offers internship to spy on BitTorrent users

    Warner Bros. UK is offering an internship to "IT literate" students that requires them to spy on fellow file-sharers. The intern will have to maintain accounts on private BitTorrent sites, as well as procure new accounts, in order to supply Warner Bros. UK with information on how that whole "world" works. Not a bad idea from Warner's perspective.

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  • Vuze/Azureus being pushed out on prominent BitTorrent sites

    Vuze/Azureus being pushed out on prominent BitTorrent sites

    There's a bit of a controversy in the BitTorrent community, friends. Two rather prominent, so-called private trackers, whose names I will not mention "just because," have announced that they will be banning Vuze, the former Azureus, one of the elder statesmen of the BitTorrent protocol. Say what you will about the direction Vuze took—I hated it—but there isn't a more powerful torrent client under the sun. Make no mistake about it: it is an important loss, and one of the bigger developments is the recently quiet world of BitTorrent.

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  • Banhammer hits loads of Chinese piracy sites

    Banhammer hits loads of Chinese piracy sites

    Hey, something's happening in China vis-à-vis piracy! The country's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has been fiddling with downloads there for the past few days, and people are complaining that they're not about to access the content they were once able to.

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