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Mininova testing BitTorrent video streaming

Posted Mar 20th 2008 10:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Video

SwarmPlayer
There are pretty much two ways to distribute video on the internet. You can provide files that users can download and then play, or files that are streamed over the internet which can be watched pretty much immediately. Videos distributed over BitTorrent tend to be of the former variety. But popular BitTorrent tracker Mininova is rolling out a test of a technology that lets you watch streaming BitTorrent videos.

Mininova is using the open source Swarm Player developed by Tribler. Beta testers won't be able to watch every video, but Mininova will offer up featured torrents that are compatible with the Swarm Player technology. You can apply to be a beta tester at the Mininova forums.

[via TorrentFreak]

Search multiple BitTorrent trackers with NowTorrents

Posted Mar 7th 2008 6:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Search

NowTorrents
Tired of searching a dozen different BitTorrent trackers every time you're looking for your 100% legal downloads of open source software? (We're going to assume that's all you look for on BitTorrent sites). NowTorrents is a BitTorrent search engine that lets you search a dozen sites including Mininova and The Pirate Bay.

While NowTorrents is hardly the only multi-site BitTorrent search tool, it does have one nifty feature - it offers a real time search to show you exactly how many seeders and peers are available for each file. The result is that NowTorrents looks a bit like the travel site SideStep, in that search results start popping up right away, but the page will continue to reload with fresh information until all NowTorrents is finished searching all 12 BitTorrent trackers.

[via MakeUseOf]

Pirate Bay, mininova, and Torrentspy among top Alexa sites

Posted Jan 23rd 2007 2:00PM by Jordan Running
Filed under: Internet

mininova, Torrentspy, and The Pirate Bay on Alexa
TorrentFreak is reporting that three top BitTorrent tracker sites--The Pirate Bay, mininova, and Torrentspy--have accomplished the inevitable and entered the Alexa 200, the top 200 most-trafficked sites on the web acccording to Alexa. Torrentspy has the highest rank at 153, followed by mininova at 165, and The Pirate Bay barely squeezing in at 198. While nobody argues that Alexa's rankings are the picture of accuracy, it does give a pretty good indication of web trends, and this seems like a pretty big trend. TorrentFreak speculates that it was IsoHunt's recent (temporary) shutdown that bumped these sites into the top 200 (with its spillover traffic going to them), and the Alexa chart would seem to confirm that. Now that IsoHunt is back up, I wonder if it will gain back that traffic, knocking the other sites down a notch.

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