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Tagged ‘Bittorrent’
BitTorrent pirates have just been given a helping hand by Google. It’s launched a new set of tools to check if your ISP is blocking traffic to your PC. In particular, it’ll sniff out ISPs that block P2P traffic. That means BitTorrent, the filesharing system of choice for pirates.
UPDATE: Yup, it looks like the Myka BitTorrent box is too good to be true. Dan Lovy, the man behind it, has been in touch with TorrentFreak to say that he was unable to raise funds for the P2P player.
The Myka BitTorrent set top box, which downloads P2P content right to your TV, seemed like a great idea to us when we first heard about it a year ago, but it’s remained that way – just an idea – for far too long now… but that could be about to change.
Myka’s just announced it’s going into production at last, but beware: we’re poised to write this one off as vapourware. Find out why after the jump.
Israel’s finest AV supplier, HDi, has been showing off its range of BitTorrent enabled Blu-ray players at CES, and the specs and file support are frankly ridiculous. Get the low down on HDi’s P2P players after the break.
Hands up everyone who has been looking for a symbian bittorrent client that will let you download huge amounts of data direct to your mobile phone!
No, seriously, hands up. Please? Anyone? McFly?
