Tired of being throttled by your ISP? Here’s some hope,

ImageShack, the media hosting site has now pulled out a new service from it’s bag of tricks. Free torrent download service using their servers.

You find a torrent, upload it into ImageShack and wait. The torrent will be downloaded onto their servers and all you have to do is download the completed file one the download is complete.

It’s not a new idea but what’s cool is ImageShack is providing the service for free with some limitations. The allocated space is 5GB and bandwidth is limited to 10GB. If you need more then you have the option to subscribe to their paid service.

1. 10GB Disk/15GB Bandwidth for $10/month
2. 25GB Disk/50GB Bandwidth for $25/month
3. 100GB Disk/200GB Bandwidth for $75/month

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Torrentpy, once the most popular torrent site on the net has finally decided to shut it’s doors and pack up permanently. Why? Well as usual MPAA is the culprit, 2 years of battling the the MPAA proved to be too much for Justin Bundell, the fonder of Torrentspy.

“We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the TorrentSpy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide on March 24, 2008.�

Those were Justin’s last words for Torrentspy.

Torrentspy was directed by the courts to log all user activities and have them submitted to the MPAA. Torrentspy came back by locking out US based users but that was not enough for the MPPA hence the decision to close it’s door. Protecting their user’s privacy was more important to Torrentpy and I respect them of that.

I’ve always used Torrespy as one of my main source for torrents and wish there was something I could have done to help.

A new verison of Deluge is out. Version 0.5.8.5

Changes made to this version shown below,

• Fix force recheck
• auto scraping of tracker if it doesn’t report number of peers on reply
• fix web seed proxy preference
• Fix adding of duplicate torrents
• Fix timers for saving fastresume and uploaded memory
• Fix rechecking on start
• PnP fixes
• Fix possible libtorrent crash in storage

Grab your copy here.

Source: Deluge

A new version of Deluge is out. Version 0.5.8.3.

Change log;

• Fix remote exploit which could crash Deluge
• Fix high cpu spikes
• Fix torrent order between sessions
• Fix loading of BlocklistImport pluginDownload Deluge 0.5.8.3 here.

Source: Deluge

A new version Deluge is out. Version 0.5.8.2 promises to fix the crash issues faced by many users.

Changelog,

Deluge 0.5.8.2 (24 January 2008)

• Fix column width saving
• Option to download new blocklist after certain number of days - Patch from Mark Stahler
• Fix ui-locking when tracker responded in non-utf8 encoding
• Remove Extra Stats plugin
• Prevent Scheduler plugin from setting an invalid ‘max_active_torrents’

Download Deluge 0.5.8.2 here.

Source: Deluge