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.
Following years of investigation into online piracy, in September 2009 the German Federation against Copyright Infringement (GVU) filed a complaint with the prosecutor in Frankfurt, Germany. Their complaint centered on a pair of movie-focused release gr …
While the sharing of music, movies and games is commonplace on the Internet, in recent years availability has extended to books of all kinds. Some of the most sought after publications are those hunted by students since the paper-based textbooks they ar …
Thanks to the public domain, Creative Commons and free distribution, there are lots of horror movies that can be downloaded and watched legally this Halloween. Here is a short collection, all either obtainable from services like VODO, The Pirate Bay or …
When negotiations are underway with the United States for your country to enter the WTO, it pays to talk tough on intellectual property issues. For Andrew and Natalia Lopukhovs, the former administrators of the now defunct Interfilm BitTorrent site, the …
The excellent article below comes from ABC Australia and is written by Nick Ross. Well worth the read. When it comes to copyright theft and piracy, many people assume there’s just one side – the side of truth, justice and copyright owners. Beyond that t …
Every day millions of people use BitTorrent to download and share movies. But what are all these people downloading? For nearly half a decade we have compiled weekly and yearly lists of the most popular downloads, and following on from Netflix’s publica …
Last year a new device came along which sought to ride the wave of new-style digital media consumption. The Freebox Revolution, from French ISP ‘Free’, consists of a hardware player and separate server offering 300 TV channels, catch-up TV, VOD, NAS hard d …
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