Legal threats against BitTorrent trackers and indexing sites like thepiratebay.org and Mininova are common in todays digital distribution world, Government's, Law Enforcement Agencies, Private Copyright Do Gooders (BREIN) alike are on a mission to rid the internet of websites that they see as the root of bittorrent media distribution. The BitTorrent protocol relies heavily on torrent indexing websites so that users can locate and download media, Cubit aims to change this practice though by adding fully decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities to Azureus as a standard plugin. [...more]
Investigators in germany have seized ten servers involved in the distrubution of large amounts of copyrighted material in return for payment including games, movies, music and software. According to the GVU report the servers were invite only with members having to pay from 20 to 500 euro to download content. [...more]
File sharing website's bar a few of the larger site's tend to be temporary affairs lasting only a few years at most before being taken offline. Over the past few years especially we have seen some of the largest sites in the world taken offline, ShareReactor, ShareConnector, EliteTorrents, Demonoid to name but a few. Usualy the members of websites that are closed find refuge at other websites on the internet pretty quickly, wouldn't it be nice however if you had a list to help you browse 1000's of potential new sites related to file sharing. This is where aboutus.org can help. [...more]
Moviex.info is a private members only bittorrent community and tracker that has been setup and configured to leech file sources from public bittorrent users, their tracker configuration allows only seeding for external users with downloading being blocked for non members of moviex.info. [...more]
TLF aka The Last Fantasy is a hugely popular Chinese file sharing website that deals with bittorrent, emule and ftp methods of sharing files, but is TLF sometimes an underrated source for sharing. Here at P2PViNE we think so [...more]
Okay so i managed to capture most of the radio interview that took place this evening between sloncek and brokep on novastreamradio.org. I missed the start but there was music played so probably just missed 5-10 minutes of chat about the search function at suprnov.org :o sorry. Below is the longest part of the interview at around 18mins for those who missed it tonight. [...more]
Yesterday seen a pheonix rise from the ashes with the return of the bittorrent legend that is SuprNova.org and who is responsible, The insatiable guys from The Pirate Bay of course who else.
Blogs like TorrentFreak, AfterDawn have covered the comeback story so i wont bother going into detail here.
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No one can deny the buzz that the photo’s of the new Harry Potter book “Deathly Hallows” has caused this week after being leaked onto p2p networks, from fans frantically transcribing the leaked photos into text to The Pirate Bay providing their usual brand of tom foolery with their main page logo picture linking to a torrent of the book. The original photographer wont be having as much fun though since it was reveled that the EXIF data was still present in the photo’s meaning the photographer’s camera can be traced. [...more]
Recently here at P2PViNE we wrote two articles about tv-links.co.uk gaining Alexa top 500 status and an eDonkey2000 indexing site top ten based on the same traffic rankings from Alexa. TorrentFreak has now written an article regarding mininova becoming one of the top 100 web site’s in the world according to Alexa’s traffic data.
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In a setback for Leaseweb, a Dutch web hosting company, a court ruled the provider must shut down the private BitTorrent site Everlasting.nu. Additionally, according to the BREIN press release, the identity of the website’s owner must also be divulged.
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