The “Break it Down” Blog

Infrant ReadyNAS Adds BitTorrent Support

Grant Gochnauer sent in news that Infrant is releasing a new Beta of their RAIDiator 4 firmware (really the OS the ReadyNAS systems run) that will be adding the precursor infrastructure for BitTorrent support. In the current build being able to set the download directory isn’t working, but will be fixed in the next beta [...]

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Comcast Sued over Traffic Blocking

Ohhhh FACE! Comcast is finally getting slapped with a lawsuit pertaining to their secret manipulation of BitTorrent and other P2P traffic using the traffic shaping software from Sandvine. A lot of folks originally thought the traffic blocking (technically called “traffic shaping” but it’s more like “traffic ub3r-p0wn4g-ing”) just applied to BitTorrent traffic (because the RIAA and [...]

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Record Label Turns to Pirate Bay for Help

Labrador Records (Swedish Record Label) turned to the Pirate Bay for help distributing a 68-track sampler because their server couldn’t handle it.

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