In what must surely be the least surprising news of 2010, a study by a French university found that piracy increased after France’s enactment of a ‘Three Strikes Law’. Under the bill, which went into power in July 2009, repeat offenders can be cut off from the Internet. If being cut off is deemed not [...]
While its users might be swapping bits that are less than legit, the crew behind LimeWire knows that securing their network isn’t an optional thing — it’s a duty. They’ve stepped up to the plate on that front, announcing that they have licensed AVG’s Antivirus SDK and will be bolting on the uber-popular antivirus and [...]
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 10 most-pirated shows of 2009, and you may be surprised just how many times your [...]
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 it’s wrong. There’s simply nothing more to it: it’s intellectual property that you’re stealing from the property’s [...]
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 tricks. For example, Lifehacker just picked up on a way to start torrent downloads remotely [...]
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 the list of other improvements and new features is longer than your arm. Check out [...]
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. The BitTorrent census, conducted by a Princeton University senior, confirms these suspicions. It turns out [...]
uTorrent has been the world’s most popular BitTorrent app for quite some time, and today its developers announced another big milestone: version 2.0 has dropped the beta tag.
While many uTorrent users haven’t been shy about updating to beta or RC builds, the general public seems to prefer the reassurance of the RTM stamp. If you [...]
Grooveshark is a fantastic music service; it lets you immediately listen to almost any song or album you can think of. They’ve got an enormous library, and the quality is usually decent. We’ve covered it before, but what makes it special for me is that it is actually one of the few services that work [...]
While you may be familiar with Frostwire – the Gnutella app built on Limewire’s open source code – you may not have heard about Frostclick before. It’s an effort to give exposure to great free (legal) content like software, music, and videos which you can download, of course, using Frostwire (or your preferred client in [...]
