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.
For more than a decade researchers have been looking into the effects of music piracy on the revenues of the record industry, with mixed results. None of these researchers, however, used a large sample of accurate download statistics from a BitTorrent …
Now that Kim Dotcom has regained access to the Internet, he can finally get back to work. One of his priorities is obviously to show that he and Megaupload are innocent, but there are some side projects to take care of as well. In a few weeks he will …
While simple to set up and use out of the box, it may comes as a surprise that the security of VPN anonymity services can be improved. Of course, when things run absolutely to plan there’s little to worry about, but there are occasions where there may be a …
Last week The Pirate Bay deleted all popular .torrent files from its site, replacing them with so-called magnet links. This means that instead of downloading the .torrent files directly from a central server, they will be downloaded from other BitTorr …
Last week The Pirate Bay took the drastic decision to remove all (well seeded) .torrent files and go magnet only. As a result, millions of BitTorrent users are now downloading through magnet files, and some noticed a problem with uTorrent. Unlike w …
I recently completed a four-part videos series called Everything is a Remix and some of the series’ fans were disappointed that it closed without giving specific directions on what we can all do. It’s a common final act in documentaries and expecting t …
Many independent filmmakers don’t see the MPAA as a group that represents their interests. On the contrary, the MPAA is often disliked for their aggressive censorship regime. Not SOPA-style Internet censorship but film censorship, allegedly used to pro …
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