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Ono is a simple plugin for popular Bittorrent client Azureus to accelerate speeds upto 207% on average, according to the project developer team at Northwestern University’s AquaLab group:

For most P2P applications, the decision regarding which peer to download from is generally arbitrary. When most peers offer good download performance, the random solution works well. However, if most peers are in a different part of the world from you, your downloads can really suffer.

The Ono plugin avoids this by proactively finding peers that are close to you (in a networking sense). These peers generally offer better response time, which can lead to significantly improved performance. We identify those peers that are near you by reusing network measurements from content distribution networks (CDNs), i.e. without performing extensive path measurement or probing.

So does this work? In a word, yes. Using results collected from our participating users (well over 100,000 of them!), we have found that our system locates peers along paths that have two orders of magnitude lower latency and 30% lower loss rates than those picked at random by BitTorrent, and that these high-quality paths can lead to significant improvements in transfer rates. In challenged settings where peers are overloaded in terms of available bandwidth, Ono provides a 31% average download-rate improvement; in environments with large available bandwidth, Ono increases download rates by 207% on average (and improves median rates by 883%).

Torrent2Exe is a free online service allowing users to create standalone executables from .torrent files for easy single click file downloads for not so computer savvy users. The service comes in handy when you want to make someone download something off the bittorrent network but he or she is not comfortable with the protocol, you simply upload the torrent to Torrent2Exe for them and create a executable which can be shared with anyone to download that particular file with ease.

Ever popular American Pie movie series has a new offering "American Pie : Beta House" the movie is supposed to get released on 27 December 2007 in USA (IMDB), the shocking news is that the movie somehow got leaked on torrents sites on 5th December, almost 25 days before the release date!

According to IMDB the plot goes like this:

In American Pie Presents: Beta House, the gangs all-new hijinks take them from the town of Great Falls to a university in Michigan. At the college, the party scene is in full swing, especially along fraternity row, where the competition for social supremacy is ferocious. Our heroes Erik and Cooze pledge the infamous Beta Delta Xi House, and hilarity ensues as everyone gets swept up in the craziness, pranks, partying, and, of course, unpredictable sexual situations. Pitted against a rival House and their power-hungry leader, the rivalry gets so intense that only the long-banned competition, The Games, can settle the question of which House prevails. It's up to the Betas to pull together and prove that some traditions deserve to be upheld!

P2P networks are once again getting targeted by fake video uploads intended to infect the user computer, we had done a similar story earlier on the blog - "3wPlayer Infected Video Files".

This time a Chinese anti-virus company has issued warnings against infected downloads of Ang Lee’s hot spy thriller movie - “Lust, Caution”, the video file when downloaded and played asks user to download the codec which is a SPYWARE, here is a comment from a downloader at a popular torrent website.

"DO NOT DOWNLOAD the codec, it is a Virus that installs NETADV TOOLBAR to your IE adding a new panel to IE, as a toolbar, do not click any buttons, find the NDV.dll and research NETADV TOOLBAR on google for all related .dll's in Windows Folder and then perform a CCLEANER [program www.ccleaner.com] registry cleaner to remove all the extra left overs, including a temp clear. Just incase you did install the codec [Advance Media Codec.exe] you will notice it wont even have a shortcut/files/.exe or anything.."

Trailer Video:

The movie is attracting lots of downloads thanks to the uncut version containing steamy violent sex scenes but keep in mind Chinese doctors have cautioned not to try some of the more ambitious sexual positions from the film.

We have written about Crytek Crysis demo here - Crysis offers players a highly immersive FPS experience in which they will have to adapt their tactics, weaponry, armour and gameplay style to survive and defeat the alien invasion.

Now to our amazement the fully cracked version of the game is available for download on warez websites and torrent networks three days before the scheduled store release date!, released by the scene group named Razor1911 the game is fully cracked and bypasses the piracy protection scheme imposed by SecuRom.

Release name: Crysis-Razor1911
Size: 1 DVD, 6.04 GB, 65×100 MB

µTorrent got updated to version 1.7.5, the updates includes fixes for a rare crash bug with malformed UPnP response and downloads getting stalled in rare cases.

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µTorrent mUI (mobileUI) is a plain-text mobile version of the WebUI with most of the important µTorrent functions. You can start, pause, stop and monitor your downloads, and it also offers some additional info about every Torrent and a couple of settings. µTorrent mUI is a web app which will allow users to turn their iPhone or any other mobile phone supporting GPRS and a web-browser into a remote control for the best Windows Torrent client µTorrent.