This just in from Wired Blogs:

The popular Demonoid.com, a semi-private BitTorrent tracker, has been taken offline. Both the torrent tracker and the site have been unresponsive for over twenty-four hours. Although there has been no official word, or statement from the Demonoid administrators, TorrentFreak claims that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is responsible for the downtime, but the CRIA has refused to comment (see update below).

It would seem that Canada is not the safe harbor Demonoid was seeking and we suspect that the site will likely move its servers again.

Limewire : Current Version: 4.14.8

Limewire has always produced solid software for the P2P market. User habits have change and the advent of torrents has changed the lookout for the future of P2P as a whole. Limewire has adapted to the changing market trends by creating a new P2P client that now accepts torrents.

Will torrents go main stream, nobody knows. By mainstream I mean will it ever develop to the point where companies such as Microsoft will distribute their updates via a torrent client or not. One would think that considering the amount of bandwidth that downloads consume, that more companies would make use of this method of distribution. Looking at the fact that SPAM and torrents consume most of the global bandwidth, would it not be proactive of large companies to accept the technology and distribute their software in such a manner.

Have you ever tried downloading a driver from the ASUS website? It makes no difference which mirror you choose, they are always slow and very busy. If all that people are doing is downloading, does it not make sense to shift the distribution to P2P instead of the old FTP and HTTP way?

P2P has evolved from where it had started. We can now watch television and movies via a P2P television/movie client. This has brought forward the Chinese market. The Chinese have started out with P2P movies distribute watching via a client called PPStream. PPStream is not bad and with a broadband connection you are able to watch television on your computer or simply connect the video out to your television.

P2P torrents are here to stay. Yes, most of the torrents as we know it are pirated software, movies or other applications. Yes, a torrent like every other application has it short comings and potential legal pitfalls. Then again so do firearms. That has not stopped and was not banished from the global market, so why would or should torrents follow suit.

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Thak to the Google Summer of Code Wordpress has upgraded thier software and we have over the past week done the same with the Free limewire site.

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/google-summer-of-code/