Unofficial Merger: The Pirate Bay and Facebook

TorrentFreak has a fascinating blog post up today about a new feature implemented by The Pirate Bay that allows Facebook users to list their favorite torrents on their profiles.

The 'Share on Facebook' link has been added to all torrent details pages and makes it so that there is absolutely no visit to The Pirate Bay site necessary -- users just click on their friends' profiles and the torrent will automatically begin to download if a torrent client is installed.

Obviously, the industry officials who have commented are pissed but it's curious that Facebook declined to comment on the issue. They surely have bigger fish to fry but I do wonder if this story will get any place in the long term. As a sort of "online globalization", the integration of websites will be an interesting phenonmenon to watch especially in terms of piracy.

Gizmodo's Bittorrent Tips and Tricks

Now, mostly I just wanted an excuse to post this picture, but tech blog Gizmodo's post today entitled "How To: Use BitTorrent Like a Pro" is an extremely helpful read for all of you budding lil' pirates out there. If it's all old hat for you, the piece is probably still worth a read just to make sure you have all of your bases covered.

I Will Change My Bittorrent Client

My torrent client of choice has been Transmission for about two years now after switching from Azureus whose Mac version always left something to be desired. I don't even come close to optimizing my Bittorrent use and therefore, I've never needed anything more than the bare minimum, which Transmission supplies.

But tech blog Gizmodo has convinced me to upgrade to Vuze, the new Azureus. It allows for iTunes transfers, transcoding, easy conversions and internal searches. You can subscribe to download shows through an internal RSS feed and the user interface is quite pretty.

I've been writing about this stuff enough now guess it's time I step up my game and optimize the time I spend online and with Bittorrent. Does anyone have any experience with this program? Tips/tricks/comments/thoughts/questions? Talk to me.