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.
Season of the Witch, TRON Legacy, Battle Los Angeles, The Next Three Days, The Fighter, The Way Back, Source Code, Limitless and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Even to the most casual of fans, it will come as no surprise that the …
Congratulations to the MPAA, their new boss Chris Dodd took office a few days ago. The 66-year old former Democratic senator, who ran for President in 2008, will surely revitalize the tune of one of the best known anti-piracy outfits. The CEO and Chair …
Type ‘Crysis 2′ into Google and the first result you get is the official site. The second result is a post from publisher EA’s blog titled ‘Crysis 2 Leaked’ “Crytek has been alerted that an early incomplete, unfinished build of Crysis 2 has appeared on …
Earlier this week an anti-piracy developer called Dominic told TorrentFreak that after pitching his product to the entertainment industries (including the MPAA, IFPI and various studios) they showed no interest. Disappointed, Dominic transformed his pla …
The case of Boston student Joel Tenenbaum against the RIAA has been dragging on for half a decade already. Last year, a jury found Tenenbaum guilty of “willful infringement” and awarded damages mounting to $675,000. In July this year judge Nancy Ge …
Week in, week out, we sit here at TorrentFreak engaged in our never-ending task to document developments in BitTorrent, file-sharing in general but increasingly the online war against music, movie and software pirates. This war has been going on now for a …
In the fall of 2002, just months after Bram Cohen released his first version of BitTorrent to the public, and at a time when there were only a few BitTorrent sites on the Internet, a new website called Suprnova.org was born. Suprnova was founded by Andr …
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