Things to think about when tuning libtorrent for high performance

An user on the libtorrent mailing list had the following problem: I’m doing some testing for a libtorrent application that will use a small number of peers (often just 1 seed and 1 downloaded) and high bandwidth delay product links (in the hundreds of Mb/s and 100ms+ round trip). I’m unable to get more than […]

Geek T-Shirt Collection #14 – FrostWire

This is the official FrostWire T-Shirt. I contribute to this open source project to keep my java skills up to date. We had a lot of these t-shirt printed to gather donations for the project. Thanks to the people that support us there’s only a few left (only M size) so Get your T-Shirt and […]

Powr.Proccoli-Kopimi – The Pirate Bay Manifesto

100 roads to #g-d: 001. Obtain the Internet. 002. Start using IRC. 003. Group and birth a site. 004. Experiment with research chemicals. 005. Design a three-step program. 006. Take a powerful stance for something positive and essential. 007. Regulate nothing. 008. Say that you have to move in two weeks, but stay for seven […]

Unsigned band breaks into top 20 most shared music on the planet

From Georgia Wonder: London, UK: Georgia Wonder, an unsigned British band, climbed into the top 20 most shared music in the world last weekend, reaching 14th position in just four days with their debut EP ‘Hello Stranger’. The EP was put onto the Pirate Bay tracker on Wednesday 14th January and by Saturday 17th was […]

Matt Pond PA offers his newest EP ‘The Freeep’ Free through Frostwire

From Frostclick.com Download Torrent mattpondpa.com Matt Pond PA (commonly typeset as matt pond PA, or mppa for short) is an indie band formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1998 by singer/songwriter Matt Pond. Throughout the years the band released 7 albums, 9 EPs and played with artists like Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Youth Group, Nickel […]

Unsigned Musician Sean Fournier Draws Over 25,000 Downloads in One Weekend

FrostWire™ is positively on the news this morning showing how P2P can achieve great things when artists have an open mind when it comes to sharing some of their work for free. As of FrostWire™ 4.17.0, we can promote legal content, or important information using the FrostWire™ welcome screen. We’ve vowed to never use this […]

Cows also share

User luisdrk from Caracas,Venezuela has posted this picture on flickr. Pretty cool stuff. it’s actually a parody of this picture by Jesus Molina. It’s really funny because we had our inspiration from a similar source, we looked for the words “frost wire” in flickr, and we saw frozen barbed wires, this is the one that […]

What’s new in FrostWire 4.13.5

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FrostWire 4.13.5 is now available for MS Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Major updates improve network bootstraping and peer discovery. 4.13.5 includes improvements on the Chatroom tab, Audio Previews and more. Other improvements have taken place for the FrostWire build process (for developers this means true One-Step builds for all versions). Updates […]