August 15, 2012
Browse and download over one million public domain movies, audiobooks and live concerts using BitTorrent. It's all thanks to The Internet Archive, who you might know as the organization behind the Wayback Machine. They've started adding torrent files to their massive archive of public domain files, all of which are hosted by two different Archive servers alongside the usual seeders and peers.
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April 5, 2011
Finding good websites that host torrent files used to be pretty easy, but since torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and its alternatives have fallen by way of the courts it hasn't been so easy to find quality torrents, especially ones that are rare to begin with. Omega Torrent Search, or Torrent Omega, is one such way to reduce this.
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March 9, 2011
Even though television isn’t going to die anytime soon, everybody can see that it’s not as dominant as it used to be. More and more people turn to their computer for entertainment. Not only because computers are more interactive but because it’s also the gateway to unlimited entertainment. You can find virtually everything on the net, [...]
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January 27, 2011
Are you a torrent user? What do you normally do when you want to download files using a torrent network? The common steps are you go to one of the torrent tracker sites, search for the file(s), download the torrent file, open the torrent file using your preferred torrent client, and finally, wait for the [...]
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September 23, 2010
There’s not much to improve about BitTorrent. It’s a very fast way to download pretty much anything, and because everyone downloading is also sharing, it’s very rare for a file to disappear so long as people are interested in it. Sometimes however, it can be a little taxing to find the file you’re looking for. [...]
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August 16, 2009
With The Pirate Bay losing its previously ever-loyal crowd due to being sold out to the Global Gaming Factory, and possibly requesting certain users to pay for its operations, many users are now turning to alternative torrent trackers to fill their needs to file share. Here are 6 of the best alternatives to Pirate Bay [...]
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May 7, 2009
It happens more and more, people trying to merge several items into one. We see it happening in the mobile phone sector, where nearly every phone is a camera and a radio as well, and in the software industry as well. This being good or bad is something for you to decide. We’ve seen multiple [...]
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March 21, 2009
A great website surfaced not too long ago, and it has been a a gold mine for music lovers everywhere : a torrent site fully dedicated to music, with an UI to make Amazon envious. In this article we’ll discuss the past and future with its creator and administrator, a mysterious web developer from Europe, [...]
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January 17, 2009
The last few years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of BitTorrent users and the content that is available via BitTorrent. Nowadays it is no big deal if you can find a TV Show on BitTorrent before it has premiered on TV. The number of sites indexing and searching BitTorrent files have kept [...]
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January 13, 2009
In the last few months, I’ve noticed more and more infected torrents and torrent sites out there. The problem with securely downloading torrents is that many of the sites are based overseas or generally don’t get the benefit of mainstream security vetting. Here is one secure torrent site that offers safe torrent downloading. VerTor is a [...]
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January 1, 2009
If you’ve been browsing MakeUseOf for a little while, you probably know how much we like torrents. The Bit Torrent distribution system allows for rapid dissemination of large files to thousands of people. It’s not the most user friendly system in the world, though. If torrents are relatively new to you, you’ve probably run into [...]
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October 29, 2008
The internet allows for a huge increase in connection and community as well as media – more specifically, music. With such a demand, a wave of new file sharing was born that is now called called BitTorrent. This allows users to share files easily by storing separate files, not on one person’s computer, but multiple [...]
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August 23, 2008
I have been a avid user of BitSoup and The Pirate Bay for years. But occasionally I find myself staring at a Google search box….torrent + file. This works OK but if you want to see all your results, you have to keep clicking back and forth to multiple torrent tracker sites. This is where [...]
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February 15, 2008
Torrents are by far the most popular form of file sharing. People use them to download audi, video, software, books, etc. In case you’re new to this then go straight to our mini tutotrial at the end of the post. As for all others, I would like to introduce you to a number of coolest [...]
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