New Pump Video Software for Windows 7 & iPhone 3.0

I am very proud to announce the public beta of:

Pump, the most advanced Video Software!

We have outdone ourselves to improve the user interface. And now it supports Windows 7 in addition to XP and Vista.

Last but not least, iPhone 3.0 is now correctly managed to transfer your music and videos to the coolest mobile device in the world. Enjoy!

Click here to discover the new Pump.

PUMP - Video Library+Search+Download+Convert+Sync

Mix a media player with a BitTorrent client, a browser, an RSS client, a download manager, a meta search engine, a media converter and a mobile sync manager - what do you get?
>>> either a freak of nature or the first complete video software ever.

We revealed PUMP-Preview-1 back in December 2008 to get feedback and we got tons of it. Since then we have taken a huge step. We made some great improvements and added a bunch of very cool features in this PUMP-Preview-2:

a completely revamped user-interface -- a much better video library with video thumbnails -- improved BitTorrent and http downloads, web browser and flash video extractor --  added audio/video conversion (hell yeah!) -- and added audio/video sync with the iPod/iPhone -- yeeeeeha!

Click here for some high quality screenshots. Click here for the full changelog.

You can download PUMP (0.7.3) here with an invite code. The code DISCOVERPUMP will work 1000 100 times. If the code has expired you can leave a comment on this page and wait for the next invite distribution, or you can contact me on twitter: I will offer a 100-usage invite code to anyone who writes about PUMP on a blog or forum or elsewhere, whether it is a good or bad review.

We put a lot of work into this and I seize the opportunity to congratulate the team. We are very proud and we really hope you'll like it too!

Wanna have a look before you install? see this video screencast:

Yes, it is the first time we present PUMP on this blog and that's a sign. We are now en route for the public beta and we thought it was time to show some cards. So, what comes next?

• Finish the conversion feature: make it look better, and make it even more simple to use
• Finish the iPhone support
• Fix bugs, more bugs and even more bugs

Then what?

Well, it is our opinion that a great Video software must have sharing and socializing features built-in. Obviously, building that from the ground up is a tough task. Hey but wait, remember, we already have VIPeers: a file sharing platform, dubbed as a social network!

So, there you go, the next big step will see the integration of PUMP with the VIPeers network. Until then, please give as tons of feedback on the VIPeers forum or better yet, follow @vipeers on twitter.

BitTorrent + Social Network = VIPeers

Feel threatened by Big Brother? Share with people you trust! is the new motto of VIPeers, now with private sharing among friends.

It’s a big step forward in the development of our service. You can now:

Add friends

Create communities by adding friends. In this way you can stay close to people you like and get updates easily.

Define visibility for your files

You want to share content easily but control who can access your files? Define the visibility of your uploads so either everyone, your friends or just you can see your content on your profile.

Broadcast your content

Use your RSS feed to update people with your new public uploads.

Manage your files

Need to free up some space? Get rid of old files!

Want to switch the visibility of a file from personal to private to show it to your friends? VIPeers now lets you edit the Settings of your files (VIP accounts only).

Come try it! We hope these features will make the VIPeers experience even more complete. But stay tuned, even more is coming…

Google King of Torrent Search

It would surprise no one if I told you that you can search for torrents on Google. Why not? Well, anything can be found on Google.

So, what's the deal?

Yesterday, you would have searched for something on google and added the keyword "torrent", or if you were an expert, maybe tried to add some fancy query using the google syntax.

A better solution is available now, based on a customized google search engine, and it seems very promising. What difference does it make in the results? I honestly don't know. Try it and tell me what you think.

Anyways, it does challenge any optinion you might have on the topic of legal vs. illegal torrent search engines, right?

Found via JMGall and apparently it surfaced on Reddit.

Rights Holders Adressing the Market of Piracy Sounds Just Right

Rewarding would-be BitTorrent pirates sounds like a strange idea, but a smart one if you look hard.

Read this story on TorrentFreak about a chick who was seeking to download a movie using BitTorrent, didn't find it but got an invite to view it legitimately, offered by Miramax, acting as the forward-thinking right-holder in that particular case.

Actually, Internet piracy is one of the most vivid realms of content lovers. Whether you sanction the behavior is not the point here, I mean people download the stuff they love, or stuff they want to discover. They are hungry for content and as such, Internet piracy is a market that legitimate content publishers must address one way or another.

How to address this market is the main question and one which, when it is answered, will probably restore faith in the content industry and make the Internet the MAIN entertainment media, above television. Don't you think so?

BitTorrent Publishing Easier than Ever thanks to VIPeers & Mininova

Where is the best place to publish a torrent, if you want millions of people to see it? Clearly Mininova, the leading source for BitTorrent downloads.

But how do you create and feed the Torrent initially? Well you do that on VIPeers, the file hosting service we launched which provides you with .torrent links and plenty of bandwidth to efficiently seed your content.

What's new is that we have collaborated with Mininova so that people who want to upload torrents on their web-site get a link to VIPeers where they can upload their actual files, and then VIPeers sends the .torrent to Mininova directly for publishing.

For the first time, publishing any kind of file by BitTorrent is as easy as one-click hosting!

Of course you should only do that with content you have the right to publish :-)

7 Things P2P Can do for US

read on at P2P Tech Time.

Economy Profits From File-Sharing says Dutch Government Report

TorrentFreak reports that a report, which was commissioned by the government, estimates the positive effect of file sharing on the Dutch economy would be around 100 million euros a year.

Isn't that amazing?

Can you believe this? Most surprising is that a government report says it.

Hmm. In France all government reports say the contrary, but of course they are always written by analysts paid by the music and movie industry, far from any neutral point of view. Service and software providers are even required by law to tell the contrary to their users, the words being that "illegal file sharing is dangerous for artistic creation". Us being honest citizens and all with VIPeers and Pump we write that sentence all over the place. Tough to imagine it could be not true.

Oh well. Let's hope. Maybe the times are a-chaging. Yes we can!

Free Music by Bands Sharing Officially on BitTorrent

Nine Inch Nails and the CXCR6 are the latest news in the trend, ever more impressive, of freely distributed music on the Web.

About NIN, the album "Ghosts I-IV" got first spot on CD sales on Amazon in 2008, in spite of it being downloadable freely, legally and officially, on P2P networks with a Creative Commons license. Now I discover they are also distributing 400GB (no typo here!) of raw HD footage from 3 of their concerts, for their fans to play with - that is amazing. The news is here on the NIN web-site and the torrents are here.

The news about CXCR6 is here on TorrentFreak: a Netlabel specialized in distributing it's bands albums for free on BitTorrent to get them exposure.

Rock on!

Apple Dropping DRM on iTunes - will music piracy increase or decrease?

I bet on decreasing numbers for P2P music sharing in 2009, if not absolutely, at least relatively to the global file sharing growth.

Personally, each time I want to buy music I have a hard time choosing between ordering the CD or the nauseating disgusting effect of purchasing DRMed tracks.

Sometimes you just can't wait for a CD delivery. Actually in the Internet days, you feel less and less inclined to ever wait more than 24h for any delivery.