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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 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

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

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.

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

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 ;)