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• RIAA’s Hostile Takeover of the Internet

  Until recently, the recording industry were committing publicity suicide by routinely issuing legal threats to file sharers. Now, they seem to have changed the routine, going for fewer, but bigger targets. The goal is clear: if you own the Internet, you don’t have to worry about pirates — or anyone else.

• How To Kill The Music Industry

  During The Pirate Bay trial, the music industry placed the blame for the decline in their revenues squarely on the shoulders of file-sharers. Their logic is clearly flawed, but it could sway the verdict if no alternative explanation is presented. So, if piracy isn’t to blame, then what is *actually* killing the music industry?

NewsBits

The latest news from around the web, not covered on the frontpage

• TorrentFreak Censored by Orange’s Child Protection Filter

  The Internet is a scary place for kids, but luckily there’s censorship. In the UK mobile...

• “How We Stopped SOPA”

  After the historic protests in January SOPA and PIPA were ‘shelved’. In a keynote speech at...

• Supreme Court Refuses $675,000 File-Sharing Case

  The case of the RIAA vs. Joel Tenenbaum – aka the case that will not die...

• MPAA: Piracy is NOT Theft After All

  For decades the entertainment industry used the word “theft” to refer to piracy. Most famous is...

• Idiotic Copyright Comparisons in Canadian Parliament

  Politicians are always going the extra mile for their supporters, and nothing spells that out more...

MostDiscussed

Below are TorrentFreak's most discussed articles of the past month. Join the discussion if you like.

• Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy

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• Microsoft Funded Startup Aims to Kill BitTorrent Traffic

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• Who’s Pirating Game of Thrones, And Why?

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• The Pirate Bay Suffers (Local) Downtime

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• The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent A Box Office Record

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PopularArticles

A selection of some TorrentFreak's classics dug up from our archives.

• Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2012

  Continuing a long-standing New Year's tradition, we present an up-to-date list of the world's most visited...

• Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously?

  Last month it became apparent that not all VPN providers live up to their marketing after...

• What’s The Best VPN / Proxy for BitTorrent?

  Privacy is important on the Internet, and BitTorrent users are certainly not excluded. Already, hundreds of...

• BTGuard Review: How Does it Work?

  With the entertainment industries lobbying for increased powers to spy on BitTorrent users, many downloaders are...

• Optimize Your BitTorrent Download Speed

  BitTorrent can be fun, as long as you get decent speeds. Not satisfied with your current...