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 [...]
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! This new malware attack, detailed by TorrentFreak, relies on a combination of fear and uncertainty [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. µTorrent Web, for example, which brings the remote control power of the Falcon project to [...]
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 [...]
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 for speed. Awesome under-the-hood improvements to the way Transmission handles torrents just confirm why Transmission [...]
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 [...]
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 completely legal torrents floating around, but they’re sometimes hard to find. Mininova underwent a rather [...]
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 the real winners. The ruling essentially says that if copyright holders want content removed for [...]
