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Get all The Pirate Bay in a 90MB download

If you are the sort who likes to download your movies, music, and other stuff from places like The Pirate Bay, you can grab your very own copy of the pirate website right now. Back in January, I mentioned that The Pirate Bay was making some changes from directly hosting torrent files to magnetic links. The change was to make the site require less bandwidth and to allow fans to be able to download and host their own version locally as a way to avoid authorities seeking to take the site off-line. Read The Full Story

MegaUpload’s takedown by the numbers

, Feb 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Believe it or not, it was and is possible to track the traffic that MegaUpload and the rest of the piracy-laden file-sharing groups out there have compared to the rest of the web. A series of studies have been conducted by a few sources we're checking out today and the results are staggering, depending on how you look at it, with the first giant being the one hour following the January 19th raid of MegaUpload. In that one hour, the entirety of the Internet lost between 2 and 3 precent of its total volume in traffic. Read The Full Story

Gotham City Impostors launched, Batman FPS chaos ensues

, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [2]

One of the wackiest looking and feeling games to have been released in what seems like forever has been officially brought out of Beta yesterday and today, rolling out to the PC, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 in turn. This game is a download-only game but looks to be a gigantic bash of a good time hit as the waves created by the smash hit game Gotham City is scooped up here in a comedic rendition of what would happen if Batman was no more. It's a first person shooter this time around, Batfriends, and noone is safe! Read The Full Story

Neil Young to continue Steve Jobs music legacy

, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [5]

One of the most famous musicians of all time, Neil Young, spoke this week with Peter Kafka and Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD about the future of digital music, and how he'd be continuing Steve Jobs legacy in pioneering for it. A device which allows you to download music with the highest possible resolution is what Young aims to create. This device will allow ultra high-fidelity audio downloads, and because of Young's talks with Jobs on the matter before he died, Young wasted no time invoking his name to spread the word about it. Read The Full Story

Gog.com brings Square Enix games to downloadable catalog

, Jan 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Gog.com has struck a new deal with Square Enix to bring some of the most iconic games of a generation to its digital download platform. It is one of the biggest scores yet for the nascent online PC game store. Gog, whose slogan is "Good Old Games," will begin with Deus Ex and Hitman, and promises more of Square Enix's incredibly heralded games will be added to the list in the coming weeks. Read The Full Story

Xbox 360 fans in the UK have new downloadable titles coming

Back during CES, Microsoft outlined new game titles that were coming as downloads to the Xbox 360 Live Arcade. Some of those games sounded really cool. Gamers in the UK now have a schedule that they can look forward to for downloading the games. The games will start hitting the Xbox 360 on February 15. More details on the games can be found here. Read The Full Story

Firefox 8 up for FTP download now

, Nov 6th 2011 Discuss [6]

It's time to upgrade your Firefox web browser, ladies and gentlemen, and it won't be the same peaches and cream automatic update you're used to - this one's FTP. That means Mozilla has the files you need to update your Firefox to the next version, but at the moment you'll have to manually download them from their servers and load it up yourself. In the near future (November 8th to be precise) you'll have the automatic download working, so no worries if you don't feel like traveling down the dark path. Read The Full Story

Google Earth Goes Global with 1 Billion Downloads

, Oct 10th 2011 Discuss [2]

Released to the public free-of-charge in 2005, Google Earth has had more impact on how we view our earth than any cartographer could have imagined. It seems fitting that the software would reach 1 billion downloads on America's Columbus Day, as discovering America then may represent our in-depth analysis of the world now. Read The Full Story

Windows 8 Developer Preview available for download tonight [UPDATE: Available now!]

, Sep 13th 2011 Discuss [6]

Today we finally were able to see what Microsoft has been working so hard on, and that is Windows 8. With the Microsoft BUILD keynote going today there should be plenty of Windows 8 details and we've already received some good news. For those waiting for an official version instead of those iffy leaked builds the wait is finally over. Read The Full Story

Counter Strike Expansion “Global Offensive” Launching inside 2012

, Aug 12th 2011 Discuss [16]

One of the most popular 3rd party modifications of a game in history, Counter-Strike has now been a legitimate stand-alone game series now for almost 10 years. What began as first-person shooter PC game Half-Life was transformed in 1999 to a game of terrorists and counter-terrorists, one side's objective to set and protect a bomb, the other's side to disarm the bomb. This game is set to have a new sequel in 2012 in the form of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, aka CS-GO. Read The Full Story

FCC Measures Actual Internet Speeds in USA

, Aug 2nd 2011 Discuss [6]

For the first time in the history of the internet, the FCC has collected a mass of data showing “real-world” speeds at which USA internet connections are working. If we can trust anyone to give us, the public, unbiased plain-number results, it’s the FCC, right? Georgia Tech professor Nick Feamster, working with the FCC on proper metrics for the test, noted that they “found that the performance of US ISPs more consistently matches their advertised promises than the ISPs in other countries—they do a pretty good job.” Of course, with numbers like what we’re seeing here and claims made by carriers around the US over the past few years, not everyone agrees.

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Android App Player Leaks for BlackBerry PlayBook

, Jul 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

The Android App Player for the BlackBerry PlayBook is a big part of its future. Being able to access many of the 250,000 Android apps available was a large selling point for the PlayBook. It appears you lucky PlayBook owners can get your hands on the App Player early because a few prying eyes over at N4BB found a pre-release version of the app emulator -- good news indeed! Read The Full Story

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