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Your days of downloading WAREZ are at an end…

Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X this morning announced it has agreed to buy file-sharing service The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish crowns (which currently converts to approx. $7.7 million).
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There are a few widely-accepted ways to anonymize your browsing or torrent activity, but they all have their drawbacks. TOR is free, but it’s poor etiquette to use it for torrents and put a strain on the bandwidth of the nice folks who run TOR servers. Not to mention that it’s incredibly, stupefyingly slow. You [...]

If you’ve ever run your drive out of space while a long-running download is still going, the Online Tech Tips weblog writes up a simple solution to change your download location to another drive.

We’re all about ways you can start BitTorrent downloads on your home computer no matter where you are, and now popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay adds one more way: personal RSS feeds.

We Love Torrents, so when you are away from your home computer, and still want to start up any download at a moment’s notice. Solution: Use file-syncing application Dropbox to sync torrents between computers.

Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share something. I have “a lot of” friends who know how to download torrents, but when they need to [...]

Wired’s Threat Level blog has the story of Torrent Droid, a new Android app that lets you scan DVD-case bar-codes with your phone, looks up the title, and remotely starts a torrent download of the title on your home machine. The use-case on Threat Level is a someone out shopping, shooting bar-codes of DVDs and [...]

The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker (and one of the most hated by studios), may be getting into streaming. The Pirate Bay may be on to something with its P2P streaming. P2P downloading has always been the toast of the town in the piracy community, but the next stage may be a move [...]

First off what is DRM? Digital Rights Management restrictions hurts more than it helps. There are 4 different ways to look at DRM.
1. From the companies point of view trying to protect their investment.
2. From the consumers point of view trying to use the product.
3. From the hacker looking for something to crack and get [...]

Hulu and Joost are great, but they still aren’t up to par. What if you want to watch your shows offline? Or in HD? You’ll need something like Miro and tv-rss.net. Take control of your TV-watching. If you’re really fancy, you can plug your laptop into your TV. Your roommate will never know the difference.