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• 404 Fail: Six Strikes’ Piracy Alternatives Go Missing

  After years of negotiating and planning the “six strikes” copyright alert system finally saw the light...

• Google Doesn’t Believe Kim Dotcom is Real

  Those who enter Kim Dotcom into Google’s search box will get millions of results. Still, Google...

• Nintendo’s Miyamoto: Piracy More Concerning Than Used Games Market

  In an interview with Computer and Video Games, Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto says that his company...

• Monitoring BitTorrent Activity on a Network Using WireShark

  As all readers should know by now, BitTorrent activity is public and can be easily logged...

• The Pirate Bay Suffers Downtime

  The Pirate Bay is not responding at the moment and most proxies appear to be down...

MostDiscussed

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

• Movie2K Disappears Without Warning

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• UK Police Launch Campaign to Shut Down Torrent Sites

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• Three Strikes For File-Sharing Fails to Halt Music Sales Decline

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• 87 Months in Prison for Copyright Infringement: Fair Sentence or Utter Madness?

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• ARM Launches Hollywood Approved Anti-Piracy Processor

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PopularArticles

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

• VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously, 2013 Edition

  More than a year ago TorrentFreak took a look at a selection of the web’s VPN...

• Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013

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

• Which VPN Service 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...