P2P and uTorrent are living just because there are plenty of nerds out there who love this concept. Another result of one of the uTorrent fans is a mobile interface uTorrent mUI using which you can easily control your uTorrent client using your mobile browser. See his forum post for detailed discussion.

The uTorrent mUI has not been developed by BitTorrent Inc. and is not an official interface (i.e. be ready for few bugs in the coming time).

Check out these tutorials to know the best of uTorrent performance optimization tricks:

• Optimize uTorrent Settings For Improved Performance
• Remote control your torrents with uTorrent’s WebUI via LifeHacker
  

I am sure that you would appreciate the CompuWorld tutorial and ofcourse the awesome LifeHacker’s tutorial.

First official stable release of uTorrent client after it got sold to BitTorrent is here. uTorrent 1.7 is out after spending several months under constant development and bug tracking. uTorrent fans need not worry about there favorite client as the new version is just an update of the older one with some enhanced features. Plus this one is fully vista compatible.

Do have a look at our famous article “Optimizing uTorrent’s Settings For Enhanced Performance.“

Few of the new features in uTorrent 1.7 are:

• Full Vista support!
• Local peer discovery: Find local peers on your own network
• Option to update to beta versions of uTorrent
• Fixes and numerous enhancements
• And a lot more…
  

Something very new to this version is that you are not required to make separate downloads for installer and standalone application. With one (very small) .exe file you can either use it as standalone application or install it into your windows system. Cool hmm!

Related:
Top 20 Torrent Sites As Of April 2007
How To Download FREE Torrent Files Using Google
First Pirated HD DVD Hits BitTorrent

Pirates around the world have fired another shot with the first release of the first full-resolution rip of an HD DVD movie on BitTorrent. The movie, Serenity, was made available as a .EVO file and is playable on most DVD playback software packages such as PowerDVD. The file was encoded in MPEG-4 VC-1 and the resulting file size was a hefty 19.6 GB.

This release follows the announcement, less than a month ago, that the copy protection on HD DVD had been bypassed by an anonymous programmer known only as Muslix64. The open-source program to implement this was called Backup HDDVD and was released in a manner designed to put the onus of cracking on the user, not the software. To extract an unencrypted copy of the HD DVD source material required obtaining that disc’s volume or title key separately, which the software did not do. However, a key was later released on the Internet, and a method for extracting further keys is allegedly available as well.

Now that the genie is out of the lamp, so to speak, what will the reaction be from the content industry? CyberLink, the makers of PowerDVD playback software, have already stated that the title keys were not obtained through their software, although this has yet to be conclusively proven. As for the content providers themselves, they have already said that they reserve the right to invalidate known pirated keys in the future. But to be of any use, they’ll first need to determine which software application is responsible for giving up the volume keys. If it is something like PowerDVD, future titles can require that the user upgrade their software in order to play discs—this can be made to happen automatically when new discs are first inserted.

Muslix64 and others involved in Backup HDDVD are deliberately not exposing the actual method by which the keys have been obtained. This is partly to protect themselves from legal repercussions, but also to ensure that whatever “hole” that is being exploited remains unpatched. In the ongoing war between the pirates and the content providers, the pirates appear to be winning, but who knows who will get caught in the crossfire?

Source: arstechnica (the full news article copied)