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10 Alternatives To Mininova
With an impressive 175,820,430 visits and close to a billion page views in the last 30 days, Mininova set a record that they will be unable to break in the near future. Last August a Dutch court ruled that Mininova had to remove all links to ‘infringing’ torrent files, with disastrous consequences. Since it is technically unfeasible to pre-approve or filter every potentially infringing torrent file, the Mininova team decided to throw in the towel and only allow torrents to be submitted by approved uploaders.
Continue reading »openSUSE – minus BitTorrent DHT
p2pnet news view Open Source:- An interesting new twist, linked to The Pirate Bay’s decision to go magnetic , has surfaced. “openSUSE is a free and Linux-based operating system for your PC, Laptop or Server,” says the download site . “You can surf the web, manage your e-mails and photos, do office work, play videos or music and have a lot of fun! – it states, going on: “openSUSE 11.2 is finally out! The openSUSE Project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2.
Continue reading »Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE
Sponsored by Novell, openSUSE is a free and Open Source operating system, based on Linux. Following in the footsteps of Ubuntu, OpenSUSE recently decided to include Transmission as the default BitTorrent client. However, the addition of Transmission to openSUSE was not straightforward.
Continue reading »Week in tech: fast-booting Ubuntu, Siracusa on UTI, Atom attacked, Netflix Armageddon
Recapping the top stories from the world of hardware, open source, science, and Law & Disorder: The latest Ubuntu 9.10 alpha release includes significant improvements to boot performance . Tests show that the popular Linux distribution can now boot in mere seconds on a computer with a solid state drive. ARM took a major step this week in bringing the netbook fight back to Intel by boosting its Cortex A9 processor up into Atom territory.
Continue reading »EliteTorrents Admin Finally Free After Dark Four Years
It wouldn’t be an understatement to say that the last few years have been pretty miserable for Scott McCausland (sk0t), ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker. After uploading a leaked workprint version of Star Wars: Episode III in 2005, he and other members of the site’s staff were tracked down and arrested by the FBI. In September 2006, Scott pleaded guilty to two charges – ‘conspiracy to commit copyright infringement’ and ‘criminal copyright infringement’.
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