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This leads to to the question wether there are any tools available that can automatically create torrents for files in a download repository and that are able to create an initial seed. This would be a nice addition to our Maven Repository Browser.

Or just take it off the 'Net on bitTorrent etc.......is there perhaps an alternative scenario that says people will pay for quality or download for free off "p2p sites, and ignore any site that overdoes the Ads?

Ubuntu 7.04 was released and I decided to download it so I could install it under Parallels over the weekend. I didn’t have a BitTorrent client on this Mac, not needing one since I got the Mac at the beginning of the year. While I could download the ISO I figured the Ubuntu servers might still be busy so it was a good time to find a BitTorrent client.

Essa “bem-intencionada” limitação veio como uma tentativa da Microsoft de diminuir a velocidade com que os Worms do Windows (assim como o famoso Blaster) pudessem se espalhar. No entanto, softwares com múltiplas conexões, assim como o BitTorrent, eMule e P2PTV, essa limitação causa grande lentidão no compartilhamento dos arquivos. Essa problema no XP SP2 poder ser resolvido com um patch disponível no site LvlLord.

Bittorrent users account for less than 15% of users (geeks like me) but they use 50% of the total bandwidth of the internet, thats how many movies are zipping around the web!

A empresa BitTorrent, que oferece uma tecnologia utilizada com freqüência para troca de arquivos piratas na internet, lançou um serviço de conteúdo legalizado. Para lançar o BitTorrent Entertainment Network, disponível na página original do programa, a companhia fez acordos com estúdios de Hollywood e também emissoras que concordaram em fornecer programas on-line.

Sure, its still kind of just looking through crap loads of memory calls to find an AACS processing key, but it works on every current title. I cant say I’m loving the idea of downloading 20gb rips via bittorrent, but the h264 encodes of said movies should be marvellous.

Cuteness permeates every episode. I guess such unpretentious and sincere cuteness is why I genuinely like Someday’s Dreamers. The entire premise of the series is cute, the protagonist is painfully cute, and the whole series is saturated in cuteness. Don’t take my word for it. Download some episodes via BitTorrent and see for yourself. =)

With the release of the BackupBluray utility, we knew it was just a matter of time before Blu-ray rips started to appear on torrent trackers. The prediction has now come true, Blu-ray rips are now being seeded right along side HD DVD rips.

And now for something else, the guys over at BitLord have released a TV show for the BitTorrent community. Mininova also plays a prominent part being the sponsor of the Torrent Top List. The guys at BitLord told me the first episode would be a first attempt at a show so they will improve it as time goes. But I have to say, the first episode is a nice start. Make sure to download the first episode here.

Well there goes another torrent client down the drain :( (it would have been better if they would have just stopped the development like TorrentStorm did years back)

I have had many people ask me how to use this 'BitTorrent' technology they've been hearing about. It can be rather complicated, and there are many deep articles on the web. However, I prefer to give them a 30 second explanation, and most people are quite happy with that.

Here’s a great essay explaining why people shouldn’t put RAR archives in torrents. They are useless and they make “selective downloading” impossible.

In other news, four out of eight administrators of the Finnish BitTorrent tracker ‘Finreactor’ have been declared guilty in court and have to pay damages totaling 60,000 dollars each. The lawsuit against Finreactor has just come to a close. This is believed to be only the first of many filed against the site. Three of the four administrators found guilty are under the age of 18. It is unclear how they are going to scrape together enough money to pay their fines. With a little help from Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (Keskusrikospoliisi), the Finnish equivalent of the RIAA shut down Finreactor in late 2004.

Nick is responsible for this addiction. The screensaver that evolves, aka Electric Sheep. Download it from the website below, then set up either HTTP or BitTorrent downloading. Then, when your computer is idle, sexy visuals will display on the screen. And the more you leave the screensaver on, the more new sheep it will download for you.

wired.com列出了他们认为的 5个最好的BitTorrent软件的优缺点，优点就不说了，看原文吧， 没优点还会不会用这个程式呢？俺列了一下部分缺点

Akamai provided global Internet caching meaning a client browser requesting a specific file when is then sent to another website which gives you the index page of the source site of the file. From the source code you can parse it into your site as an image, video or audio file. The disadvantage here was the hoops one had to go through in order to get a file, plus the fact that they could only use the servers provided to them. Now take BitTorrent, every client is also a server, hence the more popular a file is the faster it can be downloaded because more clients or servers in this case that host the give file. Again the lesson here is to give the power to the people.

The new controversial TVUPlayer has appeared on the internet and could be the TV studio’s biggest enemy since Bittorrent. This new player allows you to potentially watch any television channel in the world on your PC.

One of the coolest brands in the world, WeSC, have launched a pretty smart campaign on the world’s largetst bittorrent site The Pirate Bay. They have placed a huge banner on their frontpage (featured above) and when you click the banner you’ll get access to 3 different bittorrents: WeSC.Calendar.PAL.DVDr-WeSC, WeSC.Calendar.DVDRip.XviD-WeSC.avi and WeSC.Calendar.Episodes.DVDRip.XviD-WeSC. Smart move Greger Hagelin!

Hmm… maybe I should run back to bittorrent before I get use to the unlimited cost… oups. I mean Unlimited Service.

Well, i have an idea on how to use Amazons EC2 Service, but not sure how well it will work. the idea is fairly simple. Podcasting/Video Casting distribution network using BitTorrent. Since S3 already supports BitTorrent support, you upload the file to your S3 account. once there, you post the link to the torrent file in a RSS Feed, which is being monitored by your EC2 servers. they then download and start seeding your file, and keep seeding the file till you tell them to stop.

If TV has been so engrained in our culture, what does the BitTorrent revolution (around 2004) means? What can we infer when corporations decide to take action by targeting TV Download Sites (mid 2005)? They were obviously nervous about how much attention was being taken from them. It took a gutsy move by Apple (Oct 2005) to admit that there was no going back to the television set and that content producers had to find ways of leveraging the Internet as the new distribution channel.

Did Steve see this coming? If so, he is moving awfully slow with the movies, and BitTorrent is moving full steam ahead.

FreeBSD, Gentoo, OpenBSD, and Ubuntu Server (in that order) all failed to install. Still the same issue with the video and ethernet hardware. It didn’t seem to matter what config I tried. I was near wits end when The Dodger suggested SUSE 10.1, so I pop open Bittorrent and download the installation media, we pop in disk one, voila, it just works.

Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

The dutch justice department has released information about the arrest of 2 webmasters that where running torrent sites in the Netherlands. According to the justice department bittorrent is the most used system for copyright violation. Releases4u.com and Shareconnector.com are currently under investigation. What this could mean for other torrent sites that are based in the Netherlands is uncertain since there is no law that forbids torrent sites.

However, some level of tiering already takes place. Many ISPs actively limit traffic on Bittorrent and other P2P networks. Though this is mostly out of necessity since such applications eat up a great deal of resources, it might be a sign of what's to come.

The best BitTorrent client, µTorrent, just released it’s latest version. It has now much improved disk caching and other optimizations for faster download speed.

you’re up to date on what they’re all about, they’re just small little programs that can do all sorts of different things, from searching the internet, to providing a clock for your computer, or doing all sorts of other things. The support that they’re getting for the widgets is pretty awesome, too…they’ve got a BitTorrent widget, a Google Toolbar Widget, and my favorite, a feed reader called “Raggerator.” The widgets feature of Opera 9 appears to me like it could shape the future of web browsing. The concept of having all sorts of different programs to enhance your browsing experience is something that sounds really cool to me.

BitComet is a p2p file-sharing freeware fully compatible with Bittorrent, which is one of the most popular p2p protocol designed for high-speed distribution of 100MB or GB sized files. BitComet is a powerful, clean, fast, and easy-to-use bittorrent client. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Supports 43 Languages.

Apple did something most extraordinary, when Mac OS X was released - they simply put to rest a whole OS and started to build upon solid ground - UNIX-based to be exact. Windows on Vista and all the features such as P2P support (which by the way, this is used EVERYDAY on MSN and other IM clients) and Bittorrent had something going on - something that OS X and other Operating Systems will most eventually adopt - but in the long run.

One might wonder why they don’t just use Bittorrent to distribute the thing like the open source folks do with Linux. Apparently blogger Chris Pirillo had this very same thought:

Isn’t this software called Spyware by definition? Since when does spyware have fewer “legal and privacy issues” than BitTorrent?

Now here’s where it gets interesting. At around 11 a.m. CET on May 31, 2006, a major raid against ThePirateBay and people involved with the site took place, prompted by allegations of copyright violations. Around 50 officers confiscated the servers and detained several people.

There’s little point in having all this media playback ability unless you have the ability to… uhh… get more media. For this every computer user needs a Bittorrent client and a couple of good tracker sites. Luckily, Azureus is available for Linux. Azureus is one of the most popular bittorrent clients on the net and because it is based on Java it is available for Linux too.

I really want to know if this is true, and if so, what technologies are involved. Actually BitTorrent, or some other p2p system (unstructured or structured)? NAT hole-punching (presumably the iChat AV guys have some experience with this very thorny problem)? Possible impact on overall system performance (and ISP traffic-shaping effects)? [Friends at Apple: I will keep your whispers in closest confidence.]

When thinking about BitTorrent clients for Windows, several come to mind: Azureus, uTorrent, BitComet and BitLord. Azureus has all the features and extensive plugin support but is slowed down considerably by its use of the Java VM. uTorrent is quite the opposite with a lightweight application that doesn’t hog system resources. You can find out more about other BitTorrent clients with this detailed comparison chart on Wikipedia.

My girlfriend and I watch very few shows that dont air on the regular over the air (OTA) broadcasts. Luckily, we are pretty central in houston and have pretty good HDTV reception for all the major networks. So, why do we pay > $50 a month to Time Warner Cable for our TV? Ah, thats right - the DVR - our Scientific Atlanta 8300HD. The functionality of being able to record our shows and watch them whenever keeps us hooked. So, why not build my own PVR! If I try and keep the cost down, it will pay for itself in the money we save not paying Time Warner Cable.

I don’t really get why archive.org isn’t making use of the BitTorrent protocol. I guess it would work pretty well with their content and with their servers being sooooo slow all the time it would be a real boon. Is there a reason why they don’t do it?

uTorrent was very slow for me until recently I applied a few tweaks. Here’s what I did.

One of the newest and most exciting features of BitTorrent is RSS Torrent Feeds. Once properly configured, it lets you fully automate the procedure of finding, downloading the torrent files, and initiating the downloads to your movie folder, then finishing the download, and seeding it to a specific ratio.

Germany just agreed on a new law that makes it possible to put downloaders behind bars for two years. This is if you use the movie for personal use, commercial downloaders face up to five years in prison. Germany is considered to be one of the leading filesharing counties in Europe so this law will probably have a huge impact.

It’s almost a month after the MPAA targeted 5 of the bigger torrent sites. In the meanwhile Isohunt has been planning to fight the MPAA and is currently raising money to do so. Niteshdw on the other hand doesn’t have the money to fight and tries to settle without taking too much damage.

For example, a significant part of the traffic generated by BitTorrent-powered P2P (peer-to-peer) networks now provides the ground, the *marketplace* for the exchange of television shows, films, and not just downloading music files. This, of course, has caught the attention (and earned the enmity) of associations like the MPAA.

However, it only took a few hours for the UK premiere of Battlestar Galactica to become a global premiere thanks to peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent. In general, Sci-Fi fans are pretty geeky. Recording and distributing Battlestar Galactica became a global past time for many Sci-Fi fans. Torrent tracking websites like TorrentSpy have an entire Battlestar Galactica listing with 94 different files.

At last — the new episode of Consolevania (series 2 episode 3) has arrived! If you’ve never seen it before, you’re in for a real treat. It can be snagged via BitTorrent or HTTP download at the official site, while fans of instant gratification can watch it at Google Video.

This is a big version release for µTorrent, the popular and lightweight BitTorrent client. The major additions are Peer Exchange and Protocol Encryption, in combination with optimizations to download speed and hard disk accesses.

FTKernelAPI is an open source library for connecting to the bittorrent protocol trackers. With this library, it's simple to write a torrent app... or you can just use a third-party prepackaged solution, like uTorrent, but where's the fun in that?

Even Microsoft wants a piece of the pie. They have their Windows Media Center that does the same thing as a TiVo but in an ugly azz computer. But why bother with all those pay-for options when all you need is your broadband connection and a BitTorrent client. I’ve spoken about BitTorrent before but every week it becomes more and more of a god-send.

So what am I going to do? I'm not boycotting television shows, just television. The PVR is going back to Rogers. I'm getting all my discovery shows and 24 episodes using bittorrent from now on, commercial free.

So this stuff is some of my favorite geekage. I dig bootable CD’s: you make a CD you can boot your computer from and check out a Linux Operating System without having to install it. Get a taste of Linux with out hosing up yer Windows install. So if that’s not cool enough, newer PC motherboards can but from USB devices. So now you put the CD image on yer USB thumbdrive and set yer PC to boot from USB and it’s a whole new OS. This is indeed the ultimate rescue/hacker boot medium. I need to get a new bigger thumbdrive, like a 1gig, so I can put one of these on and have a little room left over. Cool Stuff. Go to my geek stuff page for links to some Live Linux CD’s. Ask me nice and I could make ya one. Here’s a link to the BitTorrent page for the actual USB files, mininova

For several years now, I have only tried a single bittorent client ever - BitTornado. I have heard of a lot other clients available out there, most of them seem to be more popular than the one I am currently using — there’s azureus, uTorrent, BitComet, Turbo Torrent, Bit Lord, Shareaza, etc.

You can also subscribe to your favorite RSS channel and FireAnt will automatically download the newest content. You can even schedule when you want the content downloaded, and it supports BitTorrent! Plus you can transfer your media that you downloaded to your portable device like your iPod or PSP.

In terms of media, the internet has already made much headway into this domain. This is why the distribution networks are fast to work as hard as they could to fight the media distribution over the internet. If a person could make his own T.V. show, using his own technologies, and distribute it over the internet, via bittorrent, or his own server, and have it ad supported, all free, what is the appeal of regular distribution networks? Newspapers can already tell you the massive emigration from using them for classified ads since Craiglist started getting headway.

The same level of intelligence was on display on Richard Dawkin's anti-faith program, "The Root of All Evil?", in which Dawkins attempts (and pretty much fails) to heep his temper while fundamentalist creeps claim that the scientists they know think the world isn't 4.5 billion years old, and that Dawkins' grandchildren might laugh at him for ever thinking so. Dawkins compares the guys sermons to the Nuremberg rallies, which I think only doens't cause a larger reaction because I'm not sure he knows what the Nuremberg rallies are. Shall I tell him, or do you want to? Get it off BitTorrent if you haven't seen it.

Which brings me on to another program I watched after comparisons were made between it and the Dawkins program. Called A Brief History of Disbelief, it was a far more thorough treatment of atheism than Dawkins was attempting (all three episodes are available via Bittorrent) and made mention of this puzzle from the Greek philosopher Epicurus:

So i am not talking about my friends circle here i talk about the new extension for Firefox(The browser i love-u can download it by clicking on the sidebar which has its pic). It is being made specially for us, i mean the users. It boasts of having the strenth of firefox and efficiency of BitTorrent. I saw the screenshots and it looks awesome to me.

PVRs and MP3 players are already the rage. We don’t watch 80 channels of 24-hour broadcasting every day (and not only because it’s impossible). Most people have a few shows they like, and they surf channels to see them. We aren’t loyal to the networks. We don’t care if we’re seeing our favorite stuff on HBO, CNN, Fox, NBC, or TNT. We’re all about shows, not networks. So in a PVR world, it’s much easier to work bandwidth-wise. You don’t have to send 80 channels of gunk 24 hours per day to every household. You can let them bittorrent the stuff that they actually want. You can track it better, you can charge for it, consumers can pay for a subscription (we already do) and networks can pay back the hot content producers.

NOTE: You need a Bittorrent client such as BitComet to download from PirateBay

I decided to go with CentOS 4.2, as CentOS is what I have installed on various servers that I admin. I backed up all the important data off the Windows box, and then started the adventure. First, download the DVD image from a torrent, which necessitates a BitTorrent client. Install the client, start the download, work on something else while it takes 6 hours to download. Burn the DVD, drop it into the PC, and reboot.

Now comes the question of distribution. Where can I get podcasts? One would initially go to a website that categorizes podcasts based on their content. The websites list a brief synopsis about the podcast, a link to its main website and link to its feed. The two ways of obtaining the actual audio file are manual and automatic. The manual way consists of going to the podcasts website and downloading the episodes you want to listen to. Not every website hosts the actual audio files on their servers. This is because having many people download audio from your website takes up bandwidth, which costs money. Some websites may just offer links to their bittorrent files (the concept of bittorrent will not be explained here). Automatic distribution pertains to “feeds”. Feeds (usually RSS) are links to a website that monitor it for updated content. Once new material is uploaded the feed can see it. A podcast client is used to check those feeds periodically for new material. The client can be scheduled automatically every X amount of days. The feed can download either the actual audio file or a bittorrent file. The more robust clients have bittorent support built in.

Public domain Torrents has links to more than 500 movies in the public domain available for download via BitTorrent. Most are compatible with the video iPod.

Of late, the only topics that seem to be of interest relate to or have something to do with bittorrent(s). Don’t ask why. I’m on a quest for a specific file. I’ve recently come across yet another torrent search / tracking service by the name of Torrent Jabberwalker. TJ searches the most popular tracking services including: Seedler, TorrentSpy, and ISOHunt.

all of the camp of 1960's television is intact, with 2000's-era effects. "Star Trek: New Voyages," which can be downloaded via bittorrent.

Here’s the deal. People use Bittorrent to download both legal and illegal software. The thing is, Bittorrent, developed by Bram Cohen, is mainly used by pirates all around the world. Hell, I even use it to download software and movies from TorrentSpy, Piratebay, and Mininova. No one can stop the people from using it to download illegal stuff. On the upside, there are also legitimate software available in Bittorrent. Like the stuff from Fileshack. So their solution, Bram and the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has made a deal to take down illegal downloads from the Bittorrent Search engine. This may minimize piracy but I’m almost sure that they can never put a stop to it. If it were up to me, if I really wanted to abolish piracy, I would directly ban Bittorrent. I know it’s a big price to pay, but how far are you all willing to go to stop illegal downloads?

Don’t even get me started about personal responsibility. Are we really the mindless sheep these people think we are? Everybody using eMule, Grokster, Limewire, Morpheus, Bittorrent, etc. . . knows exactly what they are doing. But it cuts both ways. It is not the job of a plaintiff to exact a punishment on a defendant before a trial. We have an entire court system for that. If a gun maker made a firearm that blew up when it thought it was in the hands of a criminal, what do you suppose would happen? They would be charged with murder, that’s what.

Excellent article on combining the power of BitTorrent with Firefox. It discusses popup killing, mimetype management, direct searching, site customisation with Greasemonkey and BitTorrent integration directly with Firefox.

µTorrent.com - Powerful, efficient and small BitTorrent client

Several interesting topics were covered; the purpose of DRM, how the public really use MMS messaging, the ins and (mainly) outs of outsourcing, the importance of User Experience in Product Development, how the French get a better Broadband deal than the British, iPaqs as Portable Media Centres, the dream pairing of BitTorrent and RSS and how more developers should fear the Grey Threat more than the Chinese or Eastern European one.

After listening to the NBaN host mention starting a petition to incorporate BitTorrent into iTunes, I decided to take some action and create one.

Think of all the old TV shows you’d like to download and watch on demand. A quick scan of the Bittorrent sites today reveal complete seasons of Desperate Housewives, Xena and Star Trek TNG all ready available for download in iPod compatible formats. Mirroring the demand for MP3 “discographies” I suspect we’ll be seeing even more of these “episodographies” available shortly.

After a one week hiatus (if you didn’t notice, there was no TWIT last week) another TWIT is in the can! This week’s hosts are Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, and Alex Lindsay, with special guest Lawrence Lessig [ http://lessig.org/blog ] of Creative Commons [ http://creativecommons.org/ ]! This week’s video is already up and available via bittorrent, as you’ll see at the episode notes page. Sadly, I have to admit that this week’s TWIT isn’t really the format that I would have liked; I prefer the larger panel discussions and the traipsing from topic to topic that lends itself to massive show notes and a great deal of information, but this week’s seemed to be a bit more slow and dull, although the subject matter was very interesting. I like departures like this, delving deeply into important topics (and Creative Commons is very important!) but at the same time it was missing the vividity and life of the previous TWIT podcasts. Oh well, can’t hit them all out of the park, or please everyone for that matter-I’m sure lots of people loved this week’s!

-Lisa asked what BitTorrent is. Instead of a long drawn out explination you won’t understand, go to this page in the Wikipedia instead.

Sorry I missed the announcement, but OpenOffice 2.0 is no longer beta. Read the press release, or go to the download page immediately.

The first thing I noticed was how clean the desktop was… it was empty! I am used to it being littered with links to the distribution’s website or trivial shortcuts to “home.” The user interface is simple and pleasing with a nice icons and cursors. Ubuntu is a powerful operating system, with the version 2 of OpenOffice.org, a BitTorrent client, Mozilla Firefox, and gAIM instant messenger, among others, preinstalled. Ubuntu is much faster than OS X on my computer in terms of booting and general system tasks. It has a lot less to load up and doesn’t have to load any fancy graphics. I did not notice any lag in the menus or the file explorer, nautilus. I was impressed at how all of my hardware worked flawlessly. The only thing that did not work was Wi-Fi via the Apple Airport Extreme card but I already knew about that. Just for a test, I plugged in several USB devices and all were recognized and functioning. This is a major relief as I remember my Gentoo Linux days where I would have to enter some lines in the terminal to mount or unmount anything.