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.
It’s been almost one year since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the MGM v Grokster case, determining that Grokster and Streamcast can be held legally liable for what it calls “inducing” copyright infringement by users if they market their …
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 …
Newnova.org, the torrent site based on the famous suprnova.org code is gone. Suprnova.org’s successor launched in October 2005, but they never came near the popularity of suprnova, or the other big players in the torrent scene. Both the newnova …
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 …
The CRIA (Canadian Record Industry Association) did a study on the effects of downloading on record sales. Interestingly enough, they found that downloaders buy more music that non-downloaders. Michael Geist went through the complete study report a …
And this is what the world would look like according to Tarmle: No one has to pay for numbers anymore. No one is threatened for merely experiencing the development of their own culture. No one is sued for participating in its creation or propagation. Th …
“I think the best policy is to declare victory and leave,” said Senator George Aiken (R , Vermont) during the Vietnam war. I think that’s a policy the entertainment industry is adopting in its ongoing battle against peer-to-peer file sharing. Aiken’s po …
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