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.
Let’s correct something first. Targetpoint confirmed yesterday that they indeed were interested in buying Meganova about a year ago, like we reported three months ago. This makes is likely that the statements of the two other torrentsite admins, who told m …
Several people claimed that out initial report and followup were not accurate so here’s an attempt to get the facts straight. Empornium Targetpoint has nothing to do with Empornium.us’s recent changes. The fact is that a former Targetpoint employee …
The lightweight BitTorrent client just released version 1.6. uTorrent is an extremely light, but feature rich torrent client, and the winner of the BitTorrent client comparison. changes, fixes and new features include: * Added “Completed On” colu …
Is the MPAA is losing the “war on piracy”? Hollywood lost 6.1 billion according to reasearch by the MPAA, 75% higher than they expected. Although The DVD sniffin Dogs “Lucky and Flo” help a little bit, the pirates are on the loose. The MPAA claimes …
Rasmus Fleischer form the Swedish pro-piracy organization PiratbyrÃ¥n gave a talk at the Reboot8 conference., he discussed copyright issues and PiratbyrÃ¥n thoughts and vision. The Reboot8 conference is “a journey into the interconnectedness of …
Games Gameupdates TitaniumTorrents Music BTetree (p2p friendly music) Filesoup (Open Source torrents) DJmixes (mixes) Jamendo (CC licensed albums) Ampfea SXSW (South by South West music festival) Artists Decemberists (music video) Harvey …
Azureus just released a brand new version. Azureus is still SourceForge’s most active project, and in the top 3 of most downloaded utilities. There are no new gadgets, primarily bugfixes and performance improvements. including: Encryption bu …
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