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.
Bainwol’s support for McCain doesn’t come as a surprise when you look at his career history. For more than a decade he worked for the Republican Party, putting his lobbyist skills to work. In 1987, Bainwol was the campaign manager of Republican Connie Mack …
Love her or loathe her, Indiana Gregg has managed to become a minor net celebrity after her egomaniacal rant towards the Pirate Bay catapulted her into the public spotlight in a way her work was unable to. Later she reflected on her rant, sometimes con …
We first introduced BitLet back in July 2007. BitLet is a web-based Java applet which makes it possible to download .torrent files on a computer that doesn’t have a BitTorrent client installed, which is fantastic for people who either can’t, or don’ …
Unfortunately the report is not open for the public to read, people who are interested in the results need to pay $195 for a summary of (in my opinion) heavily confounded, and pretty much worthless statistics. Let me first start with a short summary of the …
Two facts: Album sales are declining. 75% of all artists profit from filesharing. We will try to explain these two seemingly contradicting facts, and list three factors that may help us understand what’s going on… Artists sell more album …
Michael Geist’s interpretation of a recent study on how downloading affects the music bussiness caused quite some controversy. Geist concluded from the study that filesharing does not hurt the record industry. P2Pnet interviewed Geist, they discuss several …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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