Tag Archives : BitTorrent

BitTorrent, Inc. announced today that it has just hit the milestone of 100 million active users monthly in its two main products, BitTorrent Mainline software and μTorrent. Of all the files exchanged by distribution platform BitTorrent (the most important platform for P2P), 60% are videos. Exchanged between the videos, 46% are from movies and TV shows [...]

A Swedish appeals court held today the sentencing of three men involved with the file-sharing Pirate Bay site, but reduced their prison sentences and increased fines imposed. The lawsuit was filed by the subsidiaries of Swedish record labels and major movie studios such as Sony BMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Brothers, and is part of the continuing [...]

The temporary closure of The Pirate Bay by the Swedish authorities two months ago, brought good news and bad news for the music industry, as the anti-piracy company’s DtedNet report shows in a released last Monday. According to the data, soon after the site was shut down it happened a “sharp decrease in illegal traffic of digital media in [...]

After attacking the torrents site The Pirate Bay, the record labels ones and movies studios are about to other battle against that they affirm to be promoting piracy: this time, the objective is the Dutch site Mininova, that also brings torrents for several content types, and a considerable part is of material protected by copyrights. A court also [...]

If you always wanted to watch videos from the net on your TV or if you wanted to send the same videos found on the net to some other TV, you could do so, thanks to Verismo’s VuNow. All you would need to do is connect VuNow to your TV and plug it in to the AC power and connect the A/V or the HDMI and your home network to Ethernet or wireless adapter. It [...]