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New Pirate Bay to Pay BitTorrent Seeders?
GGF CEO says BitTorrent seeders would be compensated for making content available to others. This past Tuesday was a sad day of sorts for the BitTorrent community after Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay announced it was sailing into safer waters and going legit. Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) bought the site for over $16 million USD in cash and stock and said it plans to use the Pirate Bay to launch “new business models” that will ensure copyright holders are fairly compensated.
Continue reading »OneSwarm Adds Community Server Support
Darknet BitTorrent-based P2P application introduces trusted source capability so you can add a feed of new friends and thus create “private trackers on steroids.” OneSwarm , the darknet BitTorrent -based application that was released this past February by researchers at the University of Washington, has now released version 0.6.2 that adds several new features, most important among them being support for community servers. Community servers are a new and improved method for importing friends into your private OneSwarm community. Each community server publishes a feed of new friends, which after subscribing to OneSwarm will notify you when new friends are available or old friends have expired.
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