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Online Tool: Checking if your ISP manipulates your torrent traffic

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P2P file sharing traffic can constitute up to 75% of all the broadband bandwidth depending on the country. This of course increases the cost of operation for the ISPs, since it means traffic congestion and slow internet for them which leads to unsatisfied customers.

To solve this problem they either buy more traffic, or they limit the p2p traffic. Businesses being businesses - maximize profit, minimize cost - some of them go for the second option, that is to limit the torrent traffic of their customers.

How to check if your ISP limits your torrent traffic?

This tool called Glasnost can check if your ISP is manipulating your torrent traffic. It takes 7 minutes to make a full analysis of your ISP.

Test on my ISP (Streamyx) returned a negative result for the main port 6885, even though Streamyx is in the Bad ISPs list that are known to throttle the torrent traffic.

Maybe I have not reached the limit yet? Glastnost’s note could be the explanation:

Note: that some ISPs do not throttle all BitTorrent traffic but only if this traffic exceeds a certain threshold. Thus, passing our tests does not necessary mean that there is no throttling occurring on your link.

That’s probably correct since I am not a heavy p2p user.

Website: broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest-mlab.php

PirateBay to develop untraceable file-sharing technology

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Sunde, the Pirate Bay’s head software designer spoke about the Pirate Bay’s upcoming project to design its own next generation file-sharing technology, one of its goals being to make every transaction completely untraceable. The project will be open source, meaning programmers from all over the world will be able to contribute.

via LA Times

FoxTorrent - Torrent Downloader in FireFox

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FoxTorrent is a firefox plugin that will allow you to download torrent files and manage them from your browser window. Apparently it continues to work even after your browser window has been closed.

http://www.foxtorrent.com

Over 270,000 subtitles for almost any movie

Posted in » Search Engines, torrent - by Ades

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OpenSubtitles.org has total of 273,398 subtitles in various languages. You don’t have to register to download the subtitles. Just search, find, and download!

Most of the Video Players automatically detect the subtitles once they are placed in the same folder as the movie. However for the Windows Media player subtitle and movie filename must be exactly the same, example;

So after you download the subtitle just put it in the same folder as the movie file, and rename it exactly as the movie file. Now double click on the movie and you will see subtitles appear at the bottom of the movie!

Subtitles come in two formats .srt and .txt. Both filetypes are recognized by almost all video players.

OpenSubtitles.org

Isohunt is back, at least for now…

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One of the largest bittorrent trackers on the net isohunt.com is online again after a brief shutdown. Apparently they are being sued for copyright infringement by the MPAA. Here is what they have to say about this:

And then there’s the lawsuit from the MPAA. I won’t downplay this; this is the greatest challenge I’ve ever faced, and the outcome will affect the operation of isoHunt and Torrentbox immensely. In terms of legal process, we are currently in the discovery phase, with summary judgment scheduled for March next year. By then we’ll have a better idea of what’s going to happen, and whether the lawsuit will actually go to trial. While I stand by my conscience and that we never condoned copyright infringement at the expense of copyright owners, I am not naive and I would not go to court if I can help it. All I want is a fair resolution to this mess.

HeyWatch.com - online video converter

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Different video files can be a headache, some players might play one type and you might need another player for another type. With HeyWatch.com now you can convert all these different types of video formats to your single favorite format (.avi?).

One more great feature that they introduced is the availability of sharing your files as .torrent. Now the uploaded files have a torrent sign, when clicked it will give you a torrent file. The good thing about this is that they will seed it for you. It means there will be a constant seeder who seeds your files. I am not sure if they will become a major torrent seeder website.

As for converting files, there is one downside. While there is no file size limit for conversion there is a time limit, all videos should not exceed 10 minutes. (What?) I know, it’s kind of sucks. At least you can convert your mobile phone videos now. www.heywatch.com

Web-based torrent client anyone?

Posted in » Business Ideas, torrent - by Ades

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With more and more ISPs shaping their traffic (blocking p2p clients), I think it’s time to introduce web-based p2p clients, what do you think? There is already such script which is written in php, it’s called TorrentFlux. However not everybody can install this kind of script on their system let alone own a web hosting that runs on linux. So I think if someone came up with a website that offers web-based p2p file sharing service, I am sure he would make a lot of money out of it.

Here is why you could make money on this: Firstly, as far as I know there is no such service on the net (not yet - but will be soon). Secondly there is a huge demand for it (from countries whose ISPs block p2p traffic). So anyone wants to develop such service and make money? Let me know if you become rich on this idea ;)

More and more ISPs limiting torrent traffic, the solution?

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More and more ISP’s are limiting BitTorrent traffic on their networks. And this leads to decreased download as well as upload rate, and sometimes you won’t be able to connect at all. The list of ISP’s that limit BitTorrent traffic, or plan to do so is growing every day, here’s a list of ISPs that are known to cause trouble for BitTorrent clients or P2P in general.

So how to get back your full download speed? The answer lies in encrypting your torrent protocol.

Encrypting your torrents will prevent throttling ISP’s from shaping your traffic. Here is a tutorial on how to enable encryption in Azureus, uTorrent, and Bitcomet, the three most popular torrent clients. [via torrentfreak]

Ripper (axxo) tops the torrent search results on isohunt

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It’s not secret that p2p (peer-to-peer) file distribution protocols like bit-torrent has been used for sharing copyrighted materials. And it’s not secret either that the producers/owners of these copyrighted materials are struggling to stop the illegal sharing of their materials.

And not only that, some of the DVD rippers like axxo became so popular for their high quality and latest DVDrips that people are now no longer searching for movie titles, instead they are searching for the ripper name on sites like isohunt.

I guess p2p is a big headache for many companies. But p2p is not to blame, p2p is like a knife, a tool that you can use for good or bad purposes. You can either cut your bread or commit a crime.

Sunni Torrents.com

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With the advent of new technologies it’s been easier to spread the words of religion, particularly with the open source file-sharing application like BitTorrent. There are lots of BitTorrent sites that support all types of torrent files. However there are more and more specific religious torrent sites are coming up like this one for example:

www.SunniTorrents.com - is an Islamic Torrent site that has lots of lectures and video files and softwares related to Islam - the most misunderstood religion and a fastest growing religion in US.

Related: www.InsideMecca.com