2009 was the biggest year ever for TV piracy. In fact, downloading shows has become so popular that some shows had download totals higher than their average TV viewership. TorrentFreak has compiled the staggering download numbers to reveal the top … Continue reading
Those crazy phishers! Barely a day goes by without some crazy new method of liberating people of their hard-earned cash. Today though, we have a new attack vector: rather than focusing on the old and stupid, this attack targets pirates! … Continue reading
Have you ever put much thought into Internet piracy? ‘Ooh, cool, tons of free stuff!’ – no, I mean, really thought about it. In almost every Western nation software and music piracy is theft. In the eyes of the law … Continue reading
Here at Download Squad, at least a few of us are in love with Dropbox for file-syncing, storage and sharing. It’s a great app with a lot of uses, and after months of using it, I’m still discovering new Dropbox … Continue reading
Torrent control applications aren’t ever going to make it into the App Store. But that’s OK — your iPhone or iPod touch has a Web browser onboard, and that’s capable of running plenty of Web apps that Apple can’t ban. … Continue reading
Transmission, the popular open-source BitTorrent client, just got an important update that includes a few of the features topping users’ most-requested list. Magnet link support is included, and so is support for trackerless torrents. Those are the big changes, but … Continue reading
Transmission is one of the fastest, lightest Bittorrent apps on Mac and Linux, and it just reached version 2.0. Although it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of the flashier torrent apps like Vuze, the new version is built … Continue reading
BitTorrent is an extraordinarily useful technology that allows for more efficient sharing of perfectly legal things like Linux distributions. Nobody’s denying, though, that it’s most often used to download things like Modern Warfare 2 or the latest season of Heroes. … Continue reading
BitTorrent — while loved by techies like you and me — often gets a bad rap because of the assumption that it’s only used to transmit illegal content like pirated software or cammed movies. There are, of course, loads of … Continue reading
The torrent community is thrilled with the outcome of the recent Viacom v. Google lawsuit, where Viacom sued the Big G for letting YouTube users upload its copyrighted material. Google won the billion-dollar case, but TorrentFreak says BitTorrent users are … Continue reading
