This years’ BitTorrent scene looks very promising in both terms of tracker activity and freshness, with plenty of new trackers having emerged on the Web since the month of January. The following is a brief description of some of the best newly opened general content trackers out there.
U.S. Federal Communications Commission wants to keep up with its promises to expand its ways of helping consumers and has introduced new tools to the Broadband.gov Web site meant to allow users measure their broadband speeds or to report unavailability of broadband. The agency will gather information to study broadband performance and availability and will protect consumers' privacy.
Raids focusing on operators running file sharing websites have multiplied lately in European countries other than the ‘usual’ UK, France or Italy. Greece saw this week a major arrest related to one of the largest torrent sites in the country – six people have been detained for facilitating online copyright infringement.