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Something’s wrong with uTorrent, the de facto Windows BitTorrent client. The client’s implementation of uTP has drawn the ire of certain private BitTorrent sites, saying that it favors uTorrent clients above all others

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Is uTorrent ruining Western Civilization as we know it? (And how big is BitTorrent still? Inquiring minds wants to know.)

Thanks to some last-minute heroics, Cablevision customers here in the Northeast were able to watch the Oscars last night , which aired on WABC, the local ABC affiliate. Cynics have suggested that’s because WABC wasn’t prepared, no matter how cavalier its previous rhetoric, to give up the night’s ratings (and ad dollars) because it wanted to eek out a few more pennies from Cablevision. (WABC had wanted extra money from Cablevision per subscriber, sorta like that Fox-Time Warner Cable feud from a few weeks ago.) But until both sides came to an agreement, people were freaking out: how are we going to watch the Oscars?! Will it be on YouTube ?

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Cablevision subscribers: You do know that broadcast TV, like WABC, is totally free, right? You just need an indoor antenna.

There’s a bit of a controversy in the BitTorrent community, friends. Two rather prominent, so-called private trackers, whose names I will not be mention “just because,” have announced that they will be banning Vuze, the former Azureus, one of the elder statesmen of the BitTorrent protocol. Say what you will about the direction Vuze took—I hated it—but there isn’t a more powerful torrent client under the sun.

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Vuze/Azureus being pushed out on prominent BitTorrent sites

Apologies for the headline, but it was too appropriate to resist.

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In Soviet uTorrent, bandwidth throttles you!

More news about The Pirate Bay to bore you all! (Seriously, it’s not like people are still talking about the old Suprnova or Torrentspy anymore, yet the TPB has stuck around.) Some time ago, a Dutch court ordered TPB to delete a number of torrents and block Dutch IP addresses from being able to visit the site. Using a sledgehammer on a thumbtack, yes.

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Dutch court orders, again, TPB to delete torrents, block Dutch users

At ease, soldiers. The Pirate Bay is back in the Google search index . I understand this was eating at your very soul for some time now

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Thank the Lord, for The Pirate Bay is back on Google

The Pirate Bay just can’t catch a break these days.

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Oh dear: The Pirate Bay removed from Google’s search index

Social this, social that. Looks like everything is being socialized these days—but not the American health care system, zing!—so it only makes sense for someone to try to socialize BitTorrent . It doesn’t hurt when that “someone” is the people behind IsoHunt, who just launched Hexagon.cc , a message board/social network hybrid built around sharing content.

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Hexagon.cc: Now it’s BitTorrent’s turn to go ‘social’

It’s finally happened.

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Rejoice Mac-Berry users, Blackberry desktop manager coming to OS X

It’s not even a story any more that Apple loves to reject Apps from the App Store.

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Apple rejects BitTorrent monitoring App, claims it’ll be used to infringe copyright