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Vuze BitTorrent Client Boosts KickassTorrents’ Visitors
The rookie BitTorrent indexer KickassTorrents has been growing steadily since early 2009, but in the last few weeks the site has seen a surge in daily visitor numbers thanks to the BitTorrent client, Vuze . Unlike most other BitTorrent applications, Vuze has a search feature that returns results from torrent sites within the application itself so users don’t have to use their web browser. With the latest update of Vuze, KickassTorrents was added to the search.
Continue reading »TwitFile: New File Sharing App for Twitter
Is file sharing indispensable? Yes, it is. Is Twitter becoming more than a craze?
Continue reading »It’s Time To Sink The Pirate Bay, and Replace It
Whether or not The Pirate Bay will end up being sold, the ship has served its purpose and is destined for Davy Jones’s Locker. Luckily for most BitTorrent fans there are plenty of alternatives . However, in the current climate where media moguls send their lawyers after everything that could be used to infringe copyrights, a paradigm shift might be needed.
Continue reading »Want to run your own torrent search engine? There’s a script for that, too.
Ever wondered why there are so many torrent meta search engines out there that pretty much do the same thing, namely aggregate torrent search results from websites like the Pirate Bay and Mininova? Because it only takes five minutes to set up such search engine, thanks to a bunch of PHP scripts that turn any shared web hosting account into an instant torrent site. And then, the money starts to roll in.
Continue reading »PWN Last.fm Brings Torrents to Last.fm
With millions of active users, Last.fm is one the largest and most appreciated music communities on the Internet. Its main purpose is to create a personalized library of all the music users play, but it’s also a handy music discovery tool and recommendation engine. Although the service enables its users to check out short previews of artists that are recommended to them, they still have to pay the full price for album or track downloads.
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