Bittorrent protocol is one of the most used technologies to share files online. Millions of users use it daily to upload and download content between peers. Using torrents is very simple and doesn't require any special computer knowlegde. All you need is a Bittorrent download client and a source with provided .torrent files.
Below is a list of most popular and convenient clients for Windows PC and Mac OS:
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The Pirate Bay is surely one of the most popular torrent sites all over the world. Even more, it's not only any site with torrents - it's a part of international sharing culture. Millions of users use the site daily and like it very much.
The Pirate Bay was grounded by the organisation called "Piratbyrån" located in Sweden. The members of Piratbyrån were political activists, hackers and well-knowledged programmers. The main aim of the site was to show the society their moral and political views as also to be able to manage the social developement all over the world. The Pirate Bay owners are not motivated by millions of dollars, they are motivated by the idea.
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The big discussion about strengths and weaknesses of Bittorrent toward Usenet already takes place for longer time. Both technologies are very popular and have huge fans community. Nonetheless both networks have advantages and disadvantages if you take a closer look at it.
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Well known that download speed for torrent files depends on seeders and leechers amount. If the file is popular then it can be transfered very fast, torrents with low peers need much more time to be downloaded. But there are stil some factors that can increase your speed if you follow them.
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CAIRO — The Egyptian military said Wednesday that it had ousted President Mohammed Morsi and suspended the country’s constitution. Armored cars, tanks and troops deployed in the capital in what advisers to the president described as a coup.
In a scene reminiscent of the earliest days of the Arab Spring, tens of thousands of Egyptians who had demanded the president’s ouster staged a jubilant celebration in Tahrir Square — dancing, cheering and setting off fireworks.
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Evidence of several internal projects at Valve including Half-life 3, Left 4 Dead 3, Source 2 and many others have been discovered from a mailing list found within project management and bug tracking software, Jira.
Valve were recently forced to react to an issue with Jira. A metaphorical window was left open which allowed people to publicly access Valve's internal tickets. Valve were quick to shut down public access to their Jira database, so we recommend you don't attempt to access it.
The images submitted to us from an anonymous source show several mailing list groups of interest, although we do not have the full list at this stage. The first image shows the mailing group for "Half-life 3" including 42 employees in this cabal, which we believe to be quite a significant number, given Valve employ approximately 300~ individuals. The names of individuals in this cabal are from various development disciplines, many of which you're likely to recognise.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA, June 2 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Turkey's four biggest cities on Sunday and clashed with riot police firing tear gas on the third day of the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years.
The din of car horns and residents banging pots and pans from balconies in support of the protests resonated across neighbourhoods in Istanbul and Ankara late into the night, as hundreds of demonstrators skirmished with riot police.
Roads around Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office in Istanbul were sealed off as police fired tear gas to push back protesters, and police raided a shopping complex in the centre of the capital Ankara where they believed demonstrators were sheltering, detaining several hundred.
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Appeals court to decide if rightsholders can subpoena 1,058 people in one case.
In recent months we've seen growingjudicialskepticism of mass copyright lawsuits. Many judges have concluded that plaintiffs—often pornography publishers—have no interest in actually litigating cases and instead hope to use the threat of ruinous legal bills (not to mention the embarrassment of public association with pornography) to extract four-figure cash settlements from defendants.
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According to a recent Blizzard security update, now might be a good time cook up a new password.
Blizzard's security team found that its internal network has been illegally accessed, and answers to personal security questions, authenticator data and cryptographically scrambled Battle.net passwords have found their way into the perpetrator's hands.
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Gamers who are tired of Microsoft hyping Windows 8 and the Surface without spilling any beans about the next-generation Xbox can chill: a new version of Microsoft’s popular gaming system will launch within 18 months at the latest.
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For years, Apple has been telling the public to "think different" when it comes to computers, and in the process the company has become wildly successful.
Now, however, the tables have been turned, with a different outcome. For its three "Genius Bar" broadcast ads that debuted during the London Olympic Games, Apple itself thought differently, and as a result it was learned on Monday, August 7 that the ads have been pulled from TV (you can still see them on Apple's home page, though).
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Re: Stuff I watched recently...
Stacking a few episodes of Landman for a decent binge, but I hear ya! Sounds good.
Stehle Today, 12:38 AM