Category: BitTorrent

Farkus Rocks FrostWire

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Update Feb 6th:: Farkus has 10,500 downloads, and it’s not even 3 days yet. Keep sharing!

The FrostClick Team found this week an awesome rock band from Chicago named Farkus. They recommended it and we’re featuring it this week on the FrostWire welcome screen.

Farkus has already gotten over 5,000 BitTorrent downloads and we’d like you to give them a try, put it in your iPod, and tell us what you think of them.

The album is being released under Creative Commons with permissions to Share and Remix. They were nice enough to even included a special message for you guys, you’ll be able to hear it if you download the album.

Farkus on the FrostWIre Welcome Screen

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Learn more about Farkus on FrostClick.com

Remember, Sharing is caring (and it’s also free promotion), but If you’d like to support this band with $, you can buy their CD on Amazon or iTunes (only like $5 last time we checked).

Rock on.

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

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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 screen for spam or evil purposes of any kind, only to help content creators of all kinds (musicians, film makers, writers, software programers, photographers, video game shops and independent professionals) that are willing to share some of their work for free, or under creative commons licenses get their message across our ever growing network.

Sean Fournier is the first musician to do so, in only 4 days his 6 track album “Oh-my” was shared via FrostWire™ by over 25,000 users, at the time of this writing the download count by the torrent tracker is 27,923, saving Sean almost 1 Terabyte of data sent, plus having his music on tens of thousands of computers and who knows into how many portable music players.

You can read the full story on FrostClick.com, our initiative towards the distribution of 100% free and legal content over FrostWire™.

Here’s a press release we found this morning on the news:

Milford, CT (PRWEB) December 2, 2008 — Musician Sean Fournier harnesses the power of Peer-to-Peer networking to distribute his free album, ‘Oh My’, to hundreds of thousands all over the world via FrostWire’s welcome screen. Within the first weekend, this exposure returned over 25,000 complete downloads for this independent singer/songwriter.

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FrostWire Welcome Screen Featuring Sean Fournier

Spread it like the plague.
Fournier’s ‘Oh My’ is the first free album download to be featured on FrostWire’s Welcome Screen, which is a new feature designed to help musicians and content owners share their media for free on the FrostWire network.

‘Oh My’ is a six-track album which was created to be 100% free. Sean encourages his listeners to download it, share it, give it friends and family – and do anything within their power to “Spread it like the plague.”

Aside from it’s recent exposure on FrostClick.com, listeners can get their hands on ‘Oh My’ at Sean Fournier’s Official Website.

If you’re a professional content creator willing to share some of your work for free to get more exposure and thus increase your sales, contact us at FrostClick.com

Related Links

Sean Fournier’s Blog – FrostWire related Post #1

Sean Fournier’s Blog – FrostWire related post #2

FrostClick.com – Sean Fournier’s “Oh My” – A great Free Album

FrostWire 4.17.0 Released

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Official FrostWire 4.17.0 Download link

After 6 months of work, a completely new fork from the LimeWire code base has come to fruition, FrostWire 4.17.0 features over a year’s worth of core and user interface upgrades made to the original LimeWire client, now included in FrostWire along all the previous work done over FrostWire 4.13.x.

Among the most important updates:

  • Upgrades on our update notification system, capability for featured content and recommendations
  • Updated Playlist (drag & drop support, and Playlist rearrange options)
  • New Media Player with volume and seek controls (Plays mp3, ogg and wav)
  • Support for private torrents
  • Greater control over your Shared files
  • Add Magnets to Open Dialog
  • Improvements in bootstrapping
  • Warn When Too Many Files Shared
  • Make Ultrapeers ignore partial results
  • Mojito DHT capable (still not active for 4.17.0)
  • More translations to be available for the community on launchpad.net. Many improvements for Spanish, and Italian and Chinese have been finally been added among others
  • Reduce query traffic by knowing firewalled state; implement leafs informing ups of firewall status.
  • Recognize flv as a video extension.
  • Enable removal from playlist via the ‘Delete’ or ‘Backspace’ key.
  • (Bittorrent) Extended BEncoding to support rational numbers.
  • Add support for alternate location lookup for BitTorrents.
  • Use less memory for large number of leaf connections.
  • General Save folder improvements.
  • Smoother Icon Tray Icons for Linux and Windows
  • FrostWire now runs under Java SE 6 on Mac OS X (however SE6 is temperamental; it exhibits some strange connection issues). More integration with the MacOSX dock and other components
  • Speedup Magnet/Torrents at startup.
  • Add partial search results.
  • Exclude magnet downloads from being purged after 7 days.
  • Incremental search on the Settings window
  • Default setting tweaks for users with high speed connections (T1,T3) to make the most out of their bandwith

Faster than ever

Here’s a full screenshot of the new speeds achieved with FrostWire 4.17.0 when downloading torrents.

FrostWire 4.17.0 is a major milestone on the project road map, many new innovations are to come after this release, stay tuned.

About FrostWire
FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers of LimeWire’s open source community announced the start of a new project fork “FrostWire” that would protect the developmental source code of the LimeWire client and any improvements to the Gnutella protocol design. The developers of FrostWire give high regard and respect to the GNU General Public License and consider it to be the ideal foundation of a creative and free enterprise market.

Download FrostWire 4.17.0 from the official website

Comcast Ordered to Stop BitTorrent Traffic Interference

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By Ernesto at TorrentFreak.com

ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. In a huge victory for BitTorrent users, the FCC has now announced that it will order Comcast to stop interfering with BitTorrent traffic.

What does that mean?
Better connectivity for all FrostWire users.

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