Water is wet 💦 -- The Verge discovers people still pirate stuff with BitTorrent
The Verge discovers people still pirate stuff with BitTorrent
BitTorrent is 25 years old, but private trackers remain active, elaborate and full of people trading enormous collections of movies, music, games and other media.
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November 9, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Water is wet 💦 -- The Verge discovers people still pirate stuff with BitTorrent
Back in my day we had to download WoW patches over DSL without bittorrent, in the snow, uphill both ways
November 4, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Back in my day we had to download WoW patches over DSL without bittorrent, in the snow, uphill both ways
Explaining to my wife about bittorrent tracker ratios: "it's important to be a good citizen when I'm pirating TV shows."
November 9, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Explaining to my wife about bittorrent tracker ratios: "it's important to be a good citizen when I'm pirating TV shows."
My latest for The Verge: A story about private BitTorrent trackers www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Torrent underground
Inside the exclusive world of private torrent trackers — and the everyday people behind the piracy boom.
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November 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
My latest for The Verge: A story about private BitTorrent trackers www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
The Verge discovers people still pirate stuff with BitTorrent
https://boingboing.net/2026/11/09/verge-private-torrent-trackers.html
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November 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The Verge discovers people still pirate stuff with BitTorrent
https://boingboing.net/2026/11/09/verge-private-torrent-trackers.html
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She wants to go on seafaring adventures and download movies from BitTorrent!
November 5, 2026 at 12:35 AM
She wants to go on seafaring adventures and download movies from BitTorrent!
BitTorrent is still a thing. Listening to The Vergecast today. Used to love that tech.
November 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
BitTorrent is still a thing. Listening to The Vergecast today. Used to love that tech.
download a bittorrent
Do what you think is right today, and then go live the life you are fighting for. Go hug your loved ones, check in with friends, take a walk, flip off a cyber truck, refill your xanax prescription, watch a comfort movie, burn out the motor in your vibrator, try a coloring book.
November 3, 2026 at 11:13 PM
download a bittorrent
📦 marque/bloodhound v11.2.0
BitTorrent tracker (announce/scrape) for Marque platform
🔗 https://github.com/letterofmarque/bloodhound
BitTorrent tracker (announce/scrape) for Marque platform
🔗 https://github.com/letterofmarque/bloodhound
November 7, 2026 at 7:13 AM
📦 marque/bloodhound v11.2.0
BitTorrent tracker (announce/scrape) for Marque platform
🔗 https://github.com/letterofmarque/bloodhound
BitTorrent tracker (announce/scrape) for Marque platform
🔗 https://github.com/letterofmarque/bloodhound
This sort of thing (plus things you think you've bought disappearing) is why bittorrent will never go away.
November 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
This sort of thing (plus things you think you've bought disappearing) is why bittorrent will never go away.
A Canadian writer used a private BitTorrent tracker to locate and preserve a rare 1990s Library of Congress documentary unavailable online.
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briefly.co
November 9, 2026 at 11:17 AM
A Canadian writer used a private BitTorrent tracker to locate and preserve a rare 1990s Library of Congress documentary unavailable online.
A Canadian writer used a private BitTorrent tracker to locate and preserve a rare 1990s Library of Congress documentary unavailable online.
Save What Matters
Curate Feeds | Make Collections | Customize Email Briefs
briefly.co
November 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
A Canadian writer used a private BitTorrent tracker to locate and preserve a rare 1990s Library of Congress documentary unavailable online.
A Canadian writer used a private BitTorrent tracker to locate and preserve a rare 1990s Library of Congress documentary unavailable online.
Save What Matters
Curate Feeds | Make Collections | Customize Email Briefs
briefly.co
November 9, 2026 at 11:17 AM
A Canadian writer used a private BitTorrent tracker to locate and preserve a rare 1990s Library of Congress documentary unavailable online.
I'll whip up some visuals once im done. feels almost like bittorrent for code haha
November 3, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I'll whip up some visuals once im done. feels almost like bittorrent for code haha
i watched movies
i couldnt afford to but i watched them thanks to bittorrent which is clearly a blessing from god
are electromagnetic pulse bombs real and should we be making these
should we be arming ourselves with emp guns or some shit to be able to forcefully disable robots
i couldnt afford to but i watched them thanks to bittorrent which is clearly a blessing from god
are electromagnetic pulse bombs real and should we be making these
should we be arming ourselves with emp guns or some shit to be able to forcefully disable robots
i know this is a publicity stunt but the amount of rage i felt upon seeing this thing was actually scary
November 7, 2026 at 4:04 AM
i watched movies
i couldnt afford to but i watched them thanks to bittorrent which is clearly a blessing from god
are electromagnetic pulse bombs real and should we be making these
should we be arming ourselves with emp guns or some shit to be able to forcefully disable robots
i couldnt afford to but i watched them thanks to bittorrent which is clearly a blessing from god
are electromagnetic pulse bombs real and should we be making these
should we be arming ourselves with emp guns or some shit to be able to forcefully disable robots
The only way to restore millennial optimism is to bittorrent the entire season of How to Make It In America
November 2, 2026 at 3:12 AM
The only way to restore millennial optimism is to bittorrent the entire season of How to Make It In America
Bittorrent... Exists...
Also. And it's probably pretty anonymous if some congress person had even a little bit of help.
Also. And it's probably pretty anonymous if some congress person had even a little bit of help.
November 6, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Bittorrent... Exists...
Also. And it's probably pretty anonymous if some congress person had even a little bit of help.
Also. And it's probably pretty anonymous if some congress person had even a little bit of help.
Last year, adult film producers Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media sued Meta, accusing the tech giant of downloading thousands of their films via BitTorrent to train AI models
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Meta Employees 'Interacted' With Pirated Copies of Adult Films, Filing Shows * TorrentFreak
A court filing shows that Meta’s internal investigation found several employees who appear to have interacted with Strike 3’s adult films.
torrentfreak.com
November 6, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Last year, adult film producers Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media sued Meta, accusing the tech giant of downloading thousands of their films via BitTorrent to train AI models
torrentfreak.com/meta-employe...
torrentfreak.com/meta-employe...
Bittorrent Nights
November 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Bittorrent Nights
## Mister Download Manager
一个几乎 1:1 复刻了 Internet Download Manager 界面和用户体验的开源下载管理器软件, 添加了 BitTorrent 支持, 同时也包含一个浏览器扩展用于嗅探和捕获下载链接.
使用 Rust 预览并在 Claude 协助下开发, 代码在 GPL-3.0 许可下开源.
* GitHub: https://github.com/anefzaoui/misterdownloadmanager
#opensource #software #windows #linux #macos
一个几乎 1:1 复刻了 Internet Download Manager 界面和用户体验的开源下载管理器软件, 添加了 BitTorrent 支持, 同时也包含一个浏览器扩展用于嗅探和捕获下载链接.
使用 Rust 预览并在 Claude 协助下开发, 代码在 GPL-3.0 许可下开源.
* GitHub: https://github.com/anefzaoui/misterdownloadmanager
#opensource #software #windows #linux #macos
November 9, 2026 at 3:57 AM
## Mister Download Manager
一个几乎 1:1 复刻了 Internet Download Manager 界面和用户体验的开源下载管理器软件, 添加了 BitTorrent 支持, 同时也包含一个浏览器扩展用于嗅探和捕获下载链接.
使用 Rust 预览并在 Claude 协助下开发, 代码在 GPL-3.0 许可下开源.
* GitHub: https://github.com/anefzaoui/misterdownloadmanager
#opensource #software #windows #linux #macos
一个几乎 1:1 复刻了 Internet Download Manager 界面和用户体验的开源下载管理器软件, 添加了 BitTorrent 支持, 同时也包含一个浏览器扩展用于嗅探和捕获下载链接.
使用 Rust 预览并在 Claude 协助下开发, 代码在 GPL-3.0 许可下开源.
* GitHub: https://github.com/anefzaoui/misterdownloadmanager
#opensource #software #windows #linux #macos
