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We would like to remind RSS users that the feed URL contains a private “torrent key” that identifies each user. Don't share your feed URL with others, or they will be able to download files on your account, potentially ruining your score.

More and more users have been seen leaking their torrent keys publically by accident, through the bloglines.com feedreader service. It turns out that the ‘private’ feed option is, misleadingly, no longer private: even when ticked, it still shares and indexes your feed for public use. This means you can't use Bloglines without compromising your account.

For this reason, effective immediately, Bloglines is banned. UKNova feeds will no longer work with it. UKNova RSS is primarily intended for the feed scanners in BitTorrent clients, but should you wish to access them through a feed reader, you can use any other application or online service that respects your privacy.

Users with leaked feed URLs have had their torrent keys changed; if this is you, you'll need to re-download the .torrent file for any torrents you are currently seeding, to get rid of the “unregistered torrent pass” tracker error message. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Or at least: that's the conclusion you'd have to come to if you saw the new Channel 4 drama "Red Riding".
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We've updated the address of our delay-free ‘dailies’ tracker, used for the daily soaps and news (as well as Sitting Ducks). This should (hopefully!) clear up the problems for our users in the United Arab Emirates with restrictive internet providers. Assuming this works, there will be no further “UAE reseed packs”.

Unfortunately this does mean that the old tracker address (or “announce URL”) for the ‘dailies’ torrents won't work any more. You may get messages in yout BitTorrent client about being “unable to contact tracker” for any old soaps/news torrents you had downloading/uploading before the change. To fix this and carry on using them, you'll need to re-download the .torrent file for each of them from the site, then load it into your client.

Xunlei: banned

Meanwhile, we'd like to remind users of the Xunlei peer-to-peer sharing program to move to a real BitTorrent client. Xunlei does not seed back downloaded files, and makes no attempt to track upload/download statistics accurately. This makes it behave effectively no differently from a cheater client.

Xunlei is not welcome at UKNova and from today the tracker will no longer talk to it. Please use any other client not listed as banned in the FAQ.

Polling has now closed for the UKNova Awards 2008. Thanks for your votes and don't forget to visit us for the awards ceremony on December 14th!

Updated
See the list of this years winners here:
http://www.uknova.com/wsgi/topic/view/82392

Check out our Winter Competition ( CLICK HERE )... and maybe you can be the much-needed guardian of a UKNova teddy bear....