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.
After the MPA won its blocking case against the Newzbin2 Usenet indexing site last year, it was only a matter of time before similar sites were targeted in the same mannner. Indeed, after a few weeks a conglomerate of music labels filed a lawsuit agains …
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 …
After the MPA won its blocking case against the Newzbin2 Usenet indexing site last year, it became clear that the entertainment industries would seek further injunctions against similar sites. Predictions pointing towards The Pirate Bay, the world’s lar …
Today, one of the UK’s leading Internet service providers unveiled a new system it believes will enhance the safety of families online. HomeSafe from TalkTalk is a network-level blocklist product which offers three key features. Firstly it offers ‘Virus …
The second day of the trial began with the announcement that Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij is not present because he hadn’t slept much the previous night. According to Neij’s lawyer he has been under the weather lately. He is trying to get some more s …
In June 2005 when the now-famous Grokster decision was handed down, initial reaction was almost unanimous. The Internet was alive with this historic defeat – Grokster had been savaged by the Supreme Court, lost their case in the biggest possible way and wo …
There are a lot of newcomers in this week’s list, 7 in total. Despite all the efforts from the movie industry to prevent “Australia” from being cammed in theaters, it was an insider who got it out in DVD quality. The data for our weekly download cha …
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