04|14|2011 4:10 pm EDT Firefox Add-on “Undoes” U.S. Government Domain Seizures | TorrentFreak by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 0 Comments Tags: Tags: add-on , domain seizure , firefox , Homeland Security , ICE .
Posted By Vrytek On Friday, April 15th 2011 In General News | Tags: all-posts, Domain, domain-seizures, firefox, frank, frank-michlick, homeland-security, permanent-link, security, torrent |
Posted By Vrytek On Friday, February 11th 2011 In General News | Tags: archivist, Business, detractors, Guide, long-dead-shows, managing-editor, Online, People, person, Personal, pulled-off-even, technology, torrent, websites-before, words |
A plucky BBC fan has set about the task of archiving almost 200 Beeb websites before distributing them online in a single torrent file. The BBC plan to cull some 172 of their websites in a massive cost-cutting measure, citing increasing server fees as the reason. While some of these websites are linked to unpopular, long-dead shows such as VideoGaiden , more valuable destinations such as the personal memories of war survivors at WW2 People’s War will also face deletion
Posted By Vrytek On Tuesday, February 1st 2011 In General News | Tags: 100gb-or-more, bittorrent, console-torrent, cost-as-little, download, download-speeds, Linux, p2p, problem-filling, surfing-the-web, Tips, torrent, virtual-private, web |
Posted By Vrytek On Friday, October 29th 2010 In General News | Tags: archive, archive-team, been-recompiled, both-the-worth, Complete, compression, ease-at-which, geocities, hosting-service, the-compression, torrent, upload-it-today, Yahoo |
It’s been over a year since Yahoo decided to kill their free web hosting service, Geocities once and for all… but don’t fret about so much “great” web content disappearing into the ether.
Posted By Vrytek On Friday, October 29th 2010 In General News | Tags: archival, archive-team, archives, bittorrent, bought-the-site, css, firefox, history, Internet, Team, time, titanic, torrent, Yahoo |
Just a year after the massively popular web host GeoCities was shut down, a team of hardy archivists are planning on re-releasing the service, in its entirety, as a single, giant torrent file. This time last year, GeoCities was in its final death throes as Yahoo , which bought the site in 1999 for $3.57 billion, announced that it would be closing down the much-loved service. Not content with just freezing accounts and bouncing back new registrations, Yahoo planned to forcibly toss hosted content off the web.
Posted By Vrytek On Friday, October 29th 2010 In General News | Tags: group, history, Internet, made-the-active, Team, thoughts, through-the-new, torrent, virtual, voice, web-hosting, World, world-wide, Yahoo |
It’s a piece of Internet history compressed and distributed via BitTtorrent. Wednesday Archive Team said that it is archiving GeoCities in its entirety and will release the backed-up network in one file via BitTorrent. The news arrives just a year after Yahoo! shut down the free web hosting service
Posted By Vrytek On Wednesday, September 8th 2010 In Hosting News | Tags: belgium, black, hungary, norway, sharing, sweden, swedish, torrent |
Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Phoenix, AZ – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21, 2010 Vancouver, BC – Nov 4, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: Web Host The Planet Enables Dallas Data Center to Deliver “Colo By The U” Blogs: Interview with John Kane of Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon of Black Lotus News: Email Host Intermedia Launches UK Affiliate Program News: European Police Raid Targets File Sharing Sites, ISPs News: Google Hires Data Center Design Veteran Daniel Costello (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Police in as many as 14 European countries are involved in an operation targeting high-ranking members of a “Piracy Pyramid”, and the servers used to deliver that copyrighted content, including those of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay ( www.thepiratebay.org ), according to reports from p2p news site TorrentFreak .
