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Music Downloading Still Favored by Students over Streaming
It’s been raining with studies lately – just last month we reported about one concerned with the shared popularity between p2p networking and video streaming . We said then that contrary to what the numbers showed and what many believed, p2p was not really “in danger” and wasn’t really losing ground over streaming. So here’s a new study conducted by the University of Reading targeting university students, according to which most of them still prefer to download music (whether from iTunes, Amazon MP3 or p2p networks) rather than stream it or buy it directly from stores.
Continue reading »Torrent Sites of the Month
KICKASSTORRENTS Genre : General Language :English Registration : not required – the site kicks ass indeed! With more than 2,550,000 torrents indexed this fast-mounting torrent tracker seems set to become a reference on the BitTorrent scene. First off, the site has one of those clean, stylish looks for which you fall instantly. Then there are its unique features –this is a short ‘inventory’ and I won’t be getting too much into details but I can name a few – a very fast searching function, lots of verified, thus100% safe to download torrents (a ‘crown’ symbol signifies just that), latest popular torrents in main categories displayed on the main page, comprehensive detail pages for individual torrents, categories extended to sub-categories and further to specific grouping and many other.
Continue reading »Top Ten Most Downloaded P2P File Sharing Clients
To get a better view on how the peer-to-peer scene is evolving with respect to what file sharing clients people prefer to download, we regularly keep you informed by publishing the latest figures. So here’s a list with last week's top most downloaded p2p file sharing programs – the chart is based on figures published by download.com (click on the names for download): P2P Client Number of downloads (last week) Number of downloads (total) 1. Limewire 5.3.6 865,463 191,654,355 2.
Continue reading »Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies via BitTorrent
Johhny Depp as John Dillinger This week's list features four new apparitions, one being this week’s most pirated movie on p2p networks -‘Public Enemies’ , a film depicting the life of one of the most notorious American gangsters – John Dillinger. TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent for the week ended October 4. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise).
Continue reading »What Do You Prefer: P2P Networking or Video Streaming?
After launching the question File Hosting Services Vs. BitTorent: Which One Will Rule File Sharing? , we invite you now to consider another one – Are video streaming sites becoming more attractive than P2P file sharing sites?
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