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.
As reported previously, Richard O’Dwyer, the former administrator of the now defunct UK-based video links site TVShack, is continuing with his fight against extradition to the United States Today, TorrentFreak has received news from Richard’s mother J …
The past 100 years have seen a vast array of technical advances in broadcasting, multiplication and transmissions of culture, but equally much misguided legislators who sought to preserve the old at expense of the new, just because the old was complaining. …
European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has once again spoken out against the so-called copyright monopolies. Last year at the Forum d’Avignon she noted that if media companies want to tackle piracy, they should look beyond “corporati …
On October 13th, Digital Music News (DMN) published an article titled “King Crimson Can’t Get Their Music Off of Grooveshark” which documented a heated email exchange between King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and supporters, and Grooveshark. The concl …
In June 2008, police arrested Blackistef, the administrator of two Internet sites. The action was taken following complaints by music rights group SACEM who had taken exception to his operations at BitTorrent links forum Torrentnews.net, and Torrent-public …
A few years ago best-selling author Paulo Coelho made a Russian translation of The Alchemist available without permission from his publisher. As a result the sales in Russia skyrocketed from 1,000 books a year to over 1,000,000. The above is just one …
In March 2010, Golden Eye (International) Ltd, a company connected with the Ben Dover porn brand, attempted to extract file-sharing settlements from Internet subscribers in the UK. Golden Eye hired law firm Tilly Bailey & Irvine (TBI), a then 170-year-o …
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