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.
In January 2010, the French authorities put in place what they believed would be the solution to the problematic issue of unauthorized online file-sharing. Their so-called “three strikes” or “graduated response” scheme would see Internet account hol …
While all the PIPA and SOPA protests are still ongoing, the first statistics coming in are truly impressive. By 3pm Washington time millions of people had already voiced their concerns. Google just reported that more than 4 million people signed the pet …
By now the story is well known. Law firm Davenport Lyons initiated the now-infamous anti-piracy settlement work in the UK but backed out due to bad publicity. ACS:Law, somehow thinking things would be different for them, took on the work expecting an easy …
In May 2011, the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) and the Finnish branch of the music industry group IFPI filed a lawsuit the District Court of Helsinki. The groups demanded that local ISP Elisa should be forced to protect the copyri …
On Wednesday it was revealed that after being founded in 2010, The Missionary Church of Kopimism is now formally recognized by the Swedish authorities as an official religion. The Church’s creator, philosophy student Isak Gerson, told TorrentFreak that …
Millions of people use BitTorrent every day, and those who want to share a file of their own literally have thousands of sites to choose from. However, the problem with most public BitTorrent indexes is that they are littered with ads and sponsored downloa …
A list of SOPA-supporting companies published earlier this week spurred a variety of customer initiatives. Most prominent was the campaign against domain registrar GoDaddy that started on Reddit yesterday. Within hours hundreds of people voiced their su …
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Privacy is important on the Internet, and BitTorrent users are certainly not excluded. Already, hundreds of...
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