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BitTorrent Downloading Hits iPhone, iPad With Installous 5

The Hackulous community are perhaps most well known for two stand-out products targeted at users of jailbroken Apple devices. The first is Apptrakr, a web-based index of cracked apps. The second, Installous, is...

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Monday, June 4th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

Magnet Links: What They Are, How They Work

The file-sharing organism has shifted its course towards other ways of offering services to the public, mostly due to the viral anti-piracy movement that’s been going on for some time now. For example,...

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Friday, April 6th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Phex: Old-School Gnutella Network P2P Client Lives On

File-sharing program is still around, offering users another method for downloading content online. Phex is a free file sharing program running on the Gnutella Network that's been around since 2001. Though there are...

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Monday, March 26th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Pirate Bay: Only Magnet Links from Today

A while back we reported the   The Pirate Bay ‘s intention to no longer host .torrent files and use exclusively magnet links on their platform. That day has arrived and Pirate Bay’s blog reads: No...

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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Magnet links become the official currency of Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay announced more than two years ago that it would stop supporting .torrent files in favor of magnet links. Today TPB made the change official. The Swedish file hosting site replaced...

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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 Net News No Comments