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 excellent article below comes from ABC Australia and is written by Nick Ross. Well worth the read. When it comes to copyright theft and piracy, many people assume there’s just one side – the side of truth, justice and copyright owners. Beyond that t …
In recent years many academics have researched the supposed link between Internet piracy and the revenues of the major music labels, with varying results. Some have concluded that there is no adverse impact of piracy on sales, others argue that there’s a m …
The top of the so-called piracy pyramid lost a stone once again yesterday, as BREIN publicized that the Swan topsite had been pulled offline. According to the Dutch anti-piracy outfit, the topsite – formerly known as ATS – operated from 12 servers carrying …
Previously, we drew attention to the growing use of stealth P2P clients for game delivery and the need to provide more transparency and control to players who are required to install P2P software during game downloads and updates. In particular, we highlig …
In the past we’ve praised game companies who adopted P2P-based solutions for the distribution of their content. Through the use of P2P, the game companies can save resources and consumers often see improved download times. However, there is also a dark sid …
According to Per Sundin, CEO of Universal Music, the decline in music revenues in the past 8 years can be fully attributed to (read: blamed on) illegal file sharing. If this were actually true, many of us might even respect his decision to go after pirates …
Granted, making predictions is easy. Being right is much harder, but I’m going to give it a try anyway. Please check back in a year and see how well I did, and feel free to share your own thoughts about what this year might bring in the comments. File-s …
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