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Jano22

Christian Decker

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ShowRSS down

I’m a huge fan of Broadcatching because it allows me to catch up with the latest news and watch my favorite shows when I got time, and not when they are scheduled, and a nice side effect is that I don’t need to own a TV.

When I wanted to find out if there is something new to watch today I noticed that my favorite service, ShowRSS, is currently down, which would explain why I’m not getting my shows. I hope it’s nothing tragic and that it returns soon.

Update: and it’s back, apparently it was just a small problem, and not the so feared takedown.

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Julo04

Christian Decker

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ThePirateBay sells out?

090219piratebay Just read an alternative way of seeing the deal between Global Gaming Factory and ThePirateBay (the worldwide largest BitTorrent tracker). While everybody is criticizing the deal, J.J. King of TorrentFreak puts it into a more positive light:
Big != Good

Let’s face it: The Pirate Bay itself had become a huge focus of attention for those trying to preserve the old copy-restriction model of the culture industries. By some accounts TPB’s tracker has been responsible for 50% of all Internet traffic, and its founders have been looming larger and larger, waving their pirate flags more and more visibly, for quite a few years. They are international celebrities and, love them as we might, that made them and TPB targets. It’s not a secret that quite a few peers on the TPB trackers today are ’spies’, there to gather data on legitimate peers — a real danger to Bittorrent users. And as well being feted, Brokep, Anakata and Tiamo have been followed, spied on, raided, arrested, maligned, sentenced and, now live under a real threat of imprisonment.

The bigger we get, the more of a target we are. Mininova, isoHunt and TPB have all been under siege these last years. We need to stop thinking about ‘one stop shops’ for our media. Distribution and aggregation point the way: think ’separation of powers’. Clients like Miro can aggregate feeds from a variety of sources according to the needs of the user. TPB may have represented the needs of the community for half a decade or more, but we don’t need them. We are our own media infrastructure!

Also the other points he cites are certainly well founded. He managed to convince me that the TPB Community won’t die when the Site is sold: let’s face it, it’s nothing more than the domain name. No Client data, no user information will be in possession of GGF!

[via TorrentFreak]

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Apro15

Christian Decker

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Automatically throttling rtorrent

I’ve been wondering how to get rtorrent to stop downloading while I’m working and go full throttle when I’m not. Even more so because I share my internet connection with 30 other people, and I can tell you, they get mad pretty fast :)

It would be nice to have a cronjob(Cron) that slows down the network load at, let’s say, 8 o’Clock in the morning and put it back full speed after 1 AM. Luckily since I already have rtorrent running in a screen instance to detach it from the console I can use the -X parameter which passes keystrokes on to the running program.

If I started rtorrent with the following command $ screen -dmS rtorrent rtorrent which creates a new, detached, screen with the name rtorrent and executes rtorrent, then I’d add the following to my crontab: 

0 1 * * * screen -r rtorrent -X stuff CCCCC
0 1 * * * screen -r rtorrent -X stuff ccccc
0 7 * * * screen -r rtorrent -X stuff S
0 7 * * * screen -r rtorrent -X stuff s

What this does is, at 1 AM, remove up to 250KB/s limit (never put in more or the limit won’t be lifted) and at 7 AM throttle all uploads and downloads to 5KB/s.

Alternatively I could kill the rtorrent instance and restart it, but by doing it this way I can still use the web interface and I don’t have to preform hash checks as often (your disk will thank you).

Any better idea? Feel free to comment:D

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Jano05

Christian Decker

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Trojan Blocks The Pirate Bay and Mininova

It’s not the first time P2P file sharing systems have been hit by a Trojan, but this one’s a bit strange:
The trojan in question (Troj/Qhost-AC) identified by anti-virus company Sophos, is a rather unusual one. It doesn’t seem to install spyware or traditional malware, but instead blocks access to the two most popular BitTorrent sites.
The trojan modifies the hosts file and redirects the domains to localhost, which makes them unavailable (except if you are sitting on the machine that hosts The Pirate Bay, that is :-) ). As TorrentFreak stays:
The question remains, who is behind this? While some might argue that the MPAA, RIAA or other anti-piracy advocates might be the source, we think it more likely that the attack originates from a relatively innocent prankster targeting pirates.
which is exactly my opinion as this is a pretty unimaginative attempt to annoy filesharers. A billion Dollar trade group can certainly do better than that :-D

Via TorrentFreak

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Augo24

Christian Decker

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Linux user forced to ditch Linux

With more and more people joining the Linux community it sad to announce that we lost one member: Scott McCausland (AKA sk0t), the ex-admin of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker, was sentenced to five months imprisonment after he confessed to uploading copies of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith just before its theatrical release. And if that wasn’t enough his internet connection is being monitored, and if he uses his favorite OS (Ubuntu) he will be denied any use of computers.
“It isn’t the fact that I have to be monitored that bothers me, it is the fact that I have restructure my life (different OS, different software on that OS) and that they would require (force) me to purchase software while I a currently unemployed and relatively unemployable with the two felonies that they gave me,” McCausland told TorrentFreak.
Pretty ridiculous… [via TorrentFreak]
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