Privacy has always been a major concern for BitTorrent users and there are only a few ways to remain anonymous. By using a secure connection, as the new TorrentPrivacy tool offers, you can bypass almost every firewall or traffic shaping application, while making sure that nobody can see what you're downloading.
Digital filesharing has come a long way since the early days of the floppy disk, starting with a 79.7 kB storage capacity in the early 1970s. Two decades ago 3.5″ disks were the most sought after medium to distribute files. At the time, their massive 1 …
Comedian Dave Gorman is reporting about an unfortunate situation concerning an image he’d posted to Flickr back in 2006. Gorman reports that in January of that year he’d been out riding his bike when he spotted letters of the alphabet that had been pain …
The majority of the reports and press releases put out by the music industry in the past several years can be summarized in a few words: “Piracy is evil and we lose a lot of money because of it.” Even today, when more music is being sold than ever b …
The Pirate Party, an international group of political parties looking at copyright, patent and trademark reform among other things, is well known to TorrentFreak readers. The name comes from the label given to them by the content industry, of which they se …
As it comes under increasing pressure from the United States, not for the first time China has announced that it is getting tough on copyright infringement. With a campaign set to run until at least May 2011, China says it can make significant headway with …
The file-sharing and anti-piracy world is full of interesting characters, most of whom remain hidden in the shadows. Some individuals are just too large to be contained though, and are either involuntarily thrust into the media spotlight by force or become …
“Introducing heavy penalties such as those in France to disconnect people from the Internet is wrong and does not work,” Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said recently as he openly criticized the French 3-strikes ‘solution’ to illicit file-sharing. He says …
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