TorrentFreak.com
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TorrentFreak frontpage on 26 January 2011
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Blog |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Lennart Renkema PhD |
| Created by | Ernesto Van Der Sar Andy Maxwell Rickard Falkvinge Ben Jones (modified WordPress) |
| Editor | "Ernesto Van Der Sar" |
| Revenue | Advertisements |
| Website | torrentfreak.com |
| Alexa rank |
 2,490 (January 2017[update]) |
| Launched | November 12, 2005 |
TorrentFreak (abbreviated TF) is a blog dedicated to reporting the latest news and trends on the BitTorrent protocol and file sharing.
The website was started in November 2005 by a Dutchman using the pseudonym "Ernesto Van Der Sar". He was joined by Andy "Enigmax" Maxwell and Ben Jones in 2007. Regular contributors include Rickard Falkvinge, founder of the Pirate Party. The online publication eCommerceTimes, in 2009, described "Ernesto" as the pseudonym of Lennart Renkema, owner of TorrentFreak. TorrentFreak's contents are free content under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Their lead researcher and community manager is the Pirate Party activist Andrew Norton.
According to Canadian law scholar Michael Geist, TorrentFreak "is widely used as a source of original reporting on digital issues". Examples are The New York Times,The Guardian,CNN,The Wall Street Journal, and the Flemish newspaper De Standaard.
Frequent areas of reporting include:
And other news affecting 'copyright, privacy and everything related to file sharing'
On August 17, 2007 TorrentFreak reported that Comcast had begun throttling its upload bandwidth, specifically against BitTorrent users. This made seeding, which is an essential part of the BitTorrent protocol, effectively impossible. It was later determined that Comcast was using Sandvine products which implement network traffic shaping and policing, and include support for both blocking new and forcefully terminating established network connections. Comcast has denied these claims whenever they have been asked to comment. A guide, for customer service representatives when asked about Comcast's BitTorrent throttling, was leaked to The Consumerist on October 26, 2007.
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