Raspberry Pi becomes a Torrent box

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If you're making a media server out of a Raspberry Pi, why not add an interface to the biggest torrent sites on the Internet? That's what [Alan] did when he wanted an automated media downloader that can stream movies and TV shows to any device. [Alan]'s torrent box is basically a web app running on a Raspberry Pi. By accessing the Pi from the browser of a desktop or mobile device, he can search … [Read more...]

Ubuntu 9.10 beta now available

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The latest version of the world's most popular Linux distribution is now available. Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala continues the six-month development cycle of this free OS. We've used Ubuntu since 2005 and, after a short adjustment period, never looked back at those other operating systems. Never used Linux? This distribution is for you but we recommend waiting until the release makes it out of beta … [Read more...]

Pirate bay verdict: Guilty

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As you've undoubtedly seen on every other website in the universe, the verdict is in. The four defendants from the Pirate Bay have been found guilty of copyright infringement and sentenced to 1 year in prison and some pretty large fines. This could be a pretty important case since it deals with the blurry area between supplying material and supplying a means to get material. Though the verdict is … [Read more...]

Android app scans barcodes, downloads torrents

AndroidAndMe is running a bounty program for Android applications. Users can request a specific application and pledge money to be awarded to the developer who delivers the functional app. [Alec Holmes] just fulfilled the first request by creating Torrent Droid. You can use the app to scan media barcodes and then download the related torrent. It uses the phone's camera to capture the product's UPC … [Read more...]

Using Bittorrent on Amazon EC2

Bittorrent is a great distribution method for large files, but its heavy bandwidth usage can be disruptive to both work and home networks. [Brett O'Connor] has decided to push all of his torrenting activity into the cloud. Amazon's EC2 service lets you run any number of Amazon Machine Images (AMI, virtual machines) on top of their hardware. You pay for processing time and data transferred. [Brett] … [Read more...]

Should you get a seedbox for your bittorrent needs?

Torrentfreak offers up a few reasons why you should get a seedbox if you're a bittorrent user who likes to share a lot of files. A seedbox is a dedicated private server used exclusively for torrent transfers. [sharky] discusses a few pros and makes a few claims that we think might be a little overblown. Although the seedbox will speed up your downloads and allow you to bypass ISP limits on your … [Read more...]

Pirate Bay hits the road, angles for encryption

Piratbyrån and their hearties from The Pirate Bay are on a pan-European summer journey that will end at the Manifesta art biennial in Italy, but in the meantime they've been hard at work lobbying for total network encryption, a system that would protect users of a network (say, a P2P network) from deep packet inspection and other forms of activity analysis.The system by which this will be … [Read more...]