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.
In March 2011, the IT department of a Swedish school discovered Hollywood movies on a student’s hard drive. The 15-year-old schoolboy had obtained them from two torrent sites. Rather than deal with the issue internally, the school’s head teacher escalat …
Earlier today we already wrote about the lawsuit that The Hurt Locker makers filed against 24,583 alleged BitTorrent users. As it turns out they sued a dead person, which could be an indication that the defendant didn’t download anything at all. But …
Since last year, in the U.S. alone more than 200,000 people have been accused of pirating movies. While it’s likely that a significant portion of the people who are suspected of downloading and sharing copyrighted material have indeed done the dead, we …
A few months ago the U.S. Copyright Group (USCG), who pioneered the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the United States, were themselves sued for fraud, abuse and extortion. The class-action lawsuit targets the movie studio Achte/Neunte, their lawyers and th …
Last week GigaOm’s co-editor Janko Roettgers published a piece in which he noted that the economic downturn has the potential to push some movie-buying customers beyond their financial limits. Instead of buying movies and TV shows, Janko mused, they might …
Today we publish two opinion pieces from copyright lawyers who are familiar with the mass-lawsuits against alleged BitTorrent users in the U.S. Both lawyers discuss whether someone can be held liable for the copyright infringements committed by others o …
Leaks of albums on the Internet are hardly a new phenomenon but while most labels suppress their anger, London-based Ninja Tune have taken the opposite approach by naming and shaming the people they believe are responsible. Ninja Tune, the label founded …
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