Peerialism is a new, upcoming BitTorrent tracking software that is supposed to be released next month.  The company promises to increase download speeds by 150% and to decrease the load on ISP networks by 20-50%. Peerialism’s software is based on OpenTracker software.

“In standard BitTorrent the tracker chooses a totally random number of peers for you. There are some good reasons for this since random actually gives some nice and robust network properties but in many cases this will force you to download for peers far away from you,” stated Andreas Dahlström, CTO and founder of Peerialism in an interview with TorrentFreak.

Peerialism supposedly selects peers to share files with more intelligently.  The software picks peers based on geographical location.  Based on geographical locations, download speeds can be faster.

Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) has bought out The Pirate Bay, a torrent search engine website that was recently taken to court for copyright infringement.  Global Gaming Factory also bought out another company called Peerialism, a file sharing service. GGF will be taking over both services in August 2009.

The founders of The Pirate Bay was fined $3.6 million and one year in jail, but tried to appeal the decision because they believed the judge may have been biased.  Check out our extensive coverage here: http://pulse2.com/category/the-pirate-bay/.  The Pirate Bay was bought for $7.7 million.

As part of the acquisition, The Pirate Bay will stop hosting and tracking torrents.  Instead they will use a third party tracking and torrent hosting service.

[via TorrentFreak]