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.
The ad-supported model is currently being tested on episodes by the video gamers network G4, but is likely to be tested on episodes from other publishers in the future. The video ads are short video clips delivered by YuMe Networks, a company that is sp …
LimeWire just doesn’t want to die; it’s digging in against the pressure to settle with the RIAA and is refusing to join the likes of Grokster, Kazaa, iMesh, Bearshare and MetaMachine (eDonkey) in the ‘where are they now?’ department of P2P file-sharing. Th …
Earlier this month we estimated that almost a million viewers get their latest Lost episode through BitTorrent. TV broadcasters are now beginning to realize that making shows available for download is helping their business, instead of hurting it. CBS’s …
The research is based on the outcome of the MPAA funded LEK study that revealed that the movie industry lost $1.3 billion in the US, and $6.1 billion worlwide. Based on these figures, the IPI concludes that Movies Pirates (online and offline) are respo …
Unfortunately there’s no data of the downloading behavior of non-Americans. It is likely that these figures are even higher outside the US, where the popular TV-shows debut months after they first aired in the US. Younger Americans are driving growth in …
The program consists of a total of 15 pages, and should be the most concrete and factual of the programs presented by parties running in the elections. After The raid on the popular BitTorrent tracker “The Piratebay”, the Pirate Party has transformed in …
Limewire is including BitTorrent support in the future. This can be a huge step forward for the most popular non-BitTorrent filesharing application. But how are they going to pull this off? The limewire blog interviewed Zlatin who’s handling the Bi …
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