Torrent Websites Reach South Africa

The services that changed forever the face of industry and the way people exchange information – those of file sharing, which basically mean offering for download or downloading files via the Internet, have been finally picked up by South Africa.

Some of the most popular services in this area include bittorrent clients such as Limewire and Vuze (formerly known as Azureus).

Due to the fact that many South African ADSL subscribers are using exclusively local accounts to download big sized files in order to reduce bandwidth costs they virtually can't access international file-sharing services.

But help now has arrived - these local-only users are given a number of local torrent search sites including Greenlab (http://www.greenlab.co.za/) and Bitfarm (http://www.greenlab.co.za/).

For those a bit behind with the news, worldwide, peer-to-peer file sharing has been targeted for allegedly supporting the illegal distribution of unauthorized material. The number of those arguing that these systems are in fact very efficient methods of distributing open source and creative commons content is increasing day by day.