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New revolutionary way of sharing files

Submitted by admin on 3 September 2009 - 10:51pm

It is not easy to find a decent files sharing service during hard times for owners of such services as Pirate Bay or Mininova. However, isoHunt owners do not give up and they have decided to ... start a new site with torrents - Hexagon.cc.

According to the creators, the new site is to revolutionize the approach to sharing files over the Web.

eMule 0.49c

Submitted by admin on 24 February 2009 - 3:25pm
eMule, a project that has been developed for seven years, has been updated and the new version is available.

The latest version of the popular file-sharing application in the P2P network has been given a number 0.49c. Through naming this version, you can see that this is not a breakthrough release but it is worth attention because of the implemented fixes.

Mininova: 7 billion downloads

Submitted by admin on 7 January 2009 - 10:35pm
In 2008, the popular torrent service Mininova had 7 billion downloads. This number is amazing, and its size has increased twice over the last year.

BSA report

Submitted by admin on 13 November 2008 - 11:25pm

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced that as a result of actions taken in the first half of 2008, 18,314 internet auctions around the world were shut down. These auctions offered 45,000 illegal copies of software worth a combined 22$ million.

In addition to closing auction sites, BSA wants to prevent distribution of illegal files via P2P networks. Therefore, in the first half of 2008, the organization issued 48,000 notices related to BitTorrent files sharing by 633,000 P2P users, with a total value of 525$ million.

P4P networks more effective than P2P

Submitted by admin on 5 November 2008 - 1:13am

Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is developing the new P4P standard that is a relatively little popular, but an interesting alternative to often criticized peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Compared with them, the main feature of P4P is so-called transfers localization. This method uses iTrackers that download data only from people connected to the same Internet service provider. This may result in a significant download speed increase and reduce the peering points load.

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