A great advantage is that VLC plays incomplete videos, opens broken videos from BitTorrent and plays ISOs without unpacking the file it is also well known for being able to play encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the DVD decryption library.

The Skin Editor allows designers to create skins for the application without the need of knowing XML or the internal makeup of skins. It provides an easy-to-use interface giving full control over all of the skin’s features.

VLC media player can be used as a server and as a client to stream and receive network streams. The VLS (VideoLAN Server), can stream MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, television channels and live videos on the network in unicast or multicast.

Other Information

• Developer : VideoLAN Team
• version 1.0.0.99
• License : Freeware

Links

• www.videolan.org

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On 31 May 2006, the website’s servers, located in Stockholm, were raided by Swedish police, causing it to go offline for three days. The Pirate Bay has also been involved in a number of lawsuits, both as the plaintiff and as the defendant. The website sued several media companies after emails from anti-piracy company MediaDefender were leaked online which revealed that the company engaged in illegal methods to take down The Pirate Bay. According to the Los Angeles Times, The Pirate Bay is “one of the world’s largest facilitators of illegal downloading”, and “the most visible member of a burgeoning international anti-copyright—or pro-piracy—movement”. On 15 November 2008, The Pirate Bay announced that it had reached over 25 million unique peers. The Pirate Bay has about 3,400,000 registered users so far. Registration is not needed to download though, only for writing comments and uploading torrents.

The Pirate Bay website allows users to search for and download BitTorrent files (torrents), small files that contain metadata necessary to download the data files from other users. The torrents are organized into categories: “Audio”, “Video”, “Applications”, “Games”, “Other” and “Porn”. The “Porn” category though is only visible for registered and logged in users and if they explicitly tick the “show porn” radio button in their settings page. Registration requires an email address and is free; registered users may upload their own torrents and comment on torrents. Downloading data files from other users is facilitated by the BitTorrent trackers that also run on The Pirate Bay servers.

The website features a relatively efficient browse function which enables users to see what is available in broad categories like Audio, Video, and Games as well as more specific categories like Audio books, Highres – Movies, and Comics. The contents of a category can then be sorted by file name, number of seeds or leechers, dates posted, etc.

Initially, The Pirate Bay’s four Linux servers ran a custom web server called Hypercube. An old version is open source. On 1 June 2005, The Pirate Bay updated its website in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage, which was reported to be at 2,000 HTTP requests per second on each of the four web servers, as well as to create a more user friendly interface for the front-end of the website. The website now runs Lighttpd and PHP on its dynamic front ends, MySQL and MySQL-proxy on the two database back ends, Sphinx on the search system, Memcache for caching SQL queries and PHP-sessions, and Varnish in front of Lighttpd for caching static content. The Pirate Bay consists of 24 dedicated servers including six dynamic web fronts, two databases, and eight BitTorrent trackers.

On 7 December 2007, The Pirate Bay finished the move from Hypercube to Opentracker as its BitTorrent tracking software, also enabling the use of the UDP tracker protocol for which Hypercube lacked support. The Pirate Bay also announced that their servers would support SSL encryption, in response to Sweden’s new wiretapping law. Opentracker is free software.

On 19 January 2009 The Pirate Bay launched IPv6 support for their tracker system, using an IPv6 only version of OpenTracker.

Funding

Petter Nilsson, a candidate on the Swedish reality show Toppkandidaterna (The Top Candidates), donated 35,000 SEK to The Pirate Bay, which they used to buy new servers. As of June 2006, the website is financed through advertisements on their result pages. According to speculations by Svenska Dagbladet, the advertisements generate about US$75,000 per month.

In April 2007, a rumour was confirmed on the Swedish talk show Bert that The Pirate Bay had received financial support from right-wing entrepreneur Carl Lundström. This caused some furor since Lundström, an heir to the Wasabröd fortune, is known for financing several far-right political parties and movements like Sverigedemokraterna and Bevara Sverige Svenskt (Keep Sweden Swedish). The size of Lundström’s contributions is unknown, as are his motives. During the talk show, The Pirate Bay spokesman Tobias Andersson acknowledged that “without Lundström’s support, Pirate Bay would not have been able to start” and claimed that most of the money went towards acquiring servers and bandwidth.

It has been suggested that the website is extremely profitable, and that The Pirate Bay is more engaged in making profit than supporting people’s rights. The website has insisted that these allegations are not true, stating, “It’s not free to operate a Web Site on this scale,” and, “If we were making lots of money I [Svartholm] wouldn’t be working late at the office tonight, I’d be sitting on a beach somewhere, working on my tan.” In response to claims of annual revenue exceeding $3 million made by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Peter Sunde argues that the website’s high bandwidth, power, and hardware costs eliminate the potential for profit. The Pirate Bay, he says, may ultimately be operating at a loss. It is possible to make donations to the Pirate Bay and the site also runs a fund intended to buy Sealand, a platform with micro-nation status.

Links

• The Pirate Bay – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Official website

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Features

BitTorrent Download – fast and powerful

• Preview while Downloading: Preview of MP3, rmvb, wmv, and qt is available during downloading process.
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  Auto Config ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) and ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) in Windows XP . Auto Config UPNP port mapping in router (UPnP support is required in router, Windows XP is required).
• Option of Disabling and Setting Priority of Files in any torrent: Files can be disabled, so they are not downloaded, or set to higher or lower priority, allowing you to select which files finish first.

HTTP/FTP Download – Innovative P2P Technology
Ability of Multi-Mirror download: Mirror servers are automatically found for the file being downloaded. Data from these servers are downloaded at the same time to increase download speed 300% or more.

• Support for Unicode: Multi-language web pages and encoded URLs can be correctly handled.
• Quick Resume: Stopped download tasks can be resumed from where they left off from both HTTP and FTP servers.

Download Management – Customization Available Global and Per-Task Speed Limit, for Both Upload and Download. Bandwidth Scheduler, Custom-built Categories Management. you can free download BitComet 1.06 now.

Other Information

• Last Updated: 2008-11-17
• License: Freeware Free
• OS: Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000
• Size: 4.93MB
• Requirements: No special requirements
• Publisher: BitComet
• Homepage: http://www.bitcomet.com/

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You may now easily publish your files through the Ares decentralized network. As a member of the virtual community, you can search and download just about any file shared by other users. Latest versions support BitTorrent protocol and Shoutcast radio stations. With Ares you can also join chat rooms or host your channel and meet new friends.

Fast multisource downloads
Ares automatically finds more sources and downloads files from many users at once. This can increase remarkably the speed of your downloads.

Powerful library organizer
Your shared files are organized into categories in a library section. You can sort your files by type, category and easily change your share settings. An handy quick-search feature locates your files by typing a keyword.

Built-in audio/video player
You can preview files while their download is in progress and organize a playlist made of your favourites. Ares’ player supports internet radio.

Filesharing chat rooms
You can host your chat room and join other available channels. Creating a chat channel has never been easier, now you can chat and meet new friends while you download files. you can free download Ares 2.0.9 now.

Other Information

• Last Updated: 2008-11-02
• License: Freeware Free
• OS: Windows XP, 2000, 98, Me
• Size: 1.92MB
• Requirements: No special requirements
• Publisher: Ares Galaxy
• Homepage: http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/

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Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including RSS auto-downloading, bandwidth prioritization, Mainline DHT and scheduling(compatible with BitComet).

Other Information

• License: Free
• Requirements: mWindows 95 users will need to install the Winsock2 Update from Microsoft for µTorrent to work correctly
• Limitations: No limitations
• Date Added: Date unavailable

Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification ) and peer exchange.

µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources – typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren’t there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 170 KB in size.

Various icon, toolbar graphic and status icon replacements are available, and creating your own is very simple.

µTorrent also has support for localization, and with a language file present, will automatically switch to your system language. If your language isn’t available, you can easily add your own, or edit other existing translations to improve them!

The developer puts in a lot of time working on features and making things more user-friendly. Releases only come out when they’re ready, with no schedule pressures, so the few bugs that appear are quickly addressed and fixed.

Here are some key features of “µTorrent”:

• Multiple simultaneous downloads
• Configurable bandwidth scheduler
• Global and per-torrent speed limiting
• Quick-resumes interrupted transfers
• RSS Downloader
• Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)

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Avast includes the following components: On demand scanner with skinnable simple interface, just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button; On access scanner, special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant messaging – ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic-intrusion detection, lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield-monitors and filters all HTTP traffic; NNTP scanner-scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; Boot time scanner-scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does.

Version 4.8.1229.80923 improves detection of Trojans, backdoors and rootkits.

Features

• License: Free
• Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
• Limitations: No limitations
• Date Added: November 08, 2008

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Features of Opera include tabbed browsing, page zooming, mouse gestures, and an integrated download manager. Its security features include built-in phishing and malware protection, strong encryption when browsing secure web sites, and the ability to easily delete private data such as cookies and browsing history by simply clicking a button.

Opera runs on a variety of personal computer operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. Though evaluations of Opera have been largely positive, Opera has captured only a fraction of the worldwide personal computer browser market. It is currently the fourth most widely used web browser for personal computers, behind Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.

Opera has a stronger market share, however, on mobile devices such as mobile phones, smartphones, and personal digital assistants. Editions of Opera are available for devices using the Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems, as well as Java ME-enabled devices. In fact, approximately 40 million mobile phones have shipped with Opera pre-installed. Furthermore, Opera is the only commercial web browser available for the Nintendo DS and Wii gaming systems. Some television set-top boxes use Opera as well, and Adobe licensed Opera technology for use in the Adobe Creative Suite.

History

Opera began in 1994 as a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company. In 1995, it branched out into a separate company named Opera Software ASA. Opera was first released publicly with version 2.0 in 1996, which only ran on Microsoft Windows. In an attempt to capitalize on the emerging market for Internet-connected handheld devices, a project to port Opera to mobile device platforms was started in 1998. Opera 4.0, released in 2000, included a new cross-platform core that facilitated creation of editions of Opera for multiple operating systems and platforms.

Up to this point, Opera was trialware and had to be purchased after the trial period ended. But version 5.0 (released in 2000) saw the end of this requirement. Instead, Opera became ad-sponsored, displaying advertisements to users who had not paid for it. Later versions of Opera gave the user the choice of seeing banner ads or targeted text advertisements from Google. With version 8.5 (released in 2005) the advertisements were removed entirely and primary financial support for the browser came through revenue from Google (which is by contract Opera’s default search engine).

Among the new features introduced in version 9.1 (released in 2006) was fraud protection using technology from GeoTrust, a digital certificate provider, and PhishTank, an organization that tracks known phishing web sites. This feature was further improved and expanded in version 9.5, when GeoTrust was replaced with Netcraft, and malware protection from Haute Secure was added.

Also in 2006, editions of Opera were made and released for Nintendo’s DS and Wii gaming systems. Opera for the Wii, called the Internet Channel, was free to download from its release on April 12, 2007 until June 30, 2007. After June 30, Wii users had to pay 500 Wii Points (about US$5) to download it. The Nintendo DS Browser is likewise not free; it is sold as a physical DS game cartridge.

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