Dark Knight Rises is definitely going to break box office records all over the world, however, even before the movie has even released, there are several torrent websites which have been filled up with fake torrents for the Dark Knight Rises.

The Indian governments Department of Telecom (DOT) recently notified ISPs to block several torrent and video websites such as Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrent, KickAss Torrent, Vimeo, Pastebin and more to curb piracy. ISPs like Reliance and Airtel have already started blocking those websites.

So you heard about Magnet Links and were terrified? What Are Magnet Links? How Are They Different From Torrents? How to Download files using Magnet Links. Are Magnet Links Safe?

Pirate Bay and EZTV websites are down. Popular torrent websites Pirate Bay and EZTV seem to be down and not accessible.

The Recording Industry Association of America claims after being caught red-handed; many people in its offices have been downloading illegal torrents of movies and music, the same kind of people that the RIAA has been on a crusade against for the past years and fining them enormous amounts of money because it infringed on their copyright. Not only are they downloading music torrents (which some may claim may be for research purposes), they are also downloading TV shows and cracked versions of software. Read more after the break.

With FlashSeed, you can easily create a torrent and have it seeded for five days.

Researchers at a Madrid university conduced a research where they track 55,000 torrents. Over 66% of these torrents were seeded by less than 100 people and it also accounted for 75% of the total downloads

What types of BitTorrent downloads were people searching for in 2010? Some of the results are obvious, but other results are unexpected and confusing.

The three founders of the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström previous convictions have been upheld by a Swedish court, which means that the trio are now headed to prison.

Burnbit is a new service that allows anyone to create a torrent of a file already hosted someplace on the internet, without first downloading the file to their computer

What seeds give the torrent client the ability to download torrent data from an http source in addition to the swarm.

Hey, Harry Potter fans, don’t visit any torrent sites this week, the latest movie in the franchise, more specifically the second to last one Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 has been leaked on torrents.

USA users download least torrents as compared to Canada and UK, Asian users from India and Pakistan prefer downloading torrents, direct downloads and watching movies online. Many European countries including Germany prefer Rapidshare.

Apple has approved a BitTorrent based Imageshack client in the App Store. “IS Drive” is now available for $4.99.

The hack has been made through SQL injection vulnerabilities and the group has access to the user database and admin panel. None of these details will be leaked to RIAA.