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.
Earlier today Sweden’s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running Pirate Bay criminal trial. This means that the prison sentences and fines against the defendants are now final. The Pirate Bay website itself, …
As previously reported, the Megaupload shutdown sent shockwaves right around the world and prompted a huge rethink by many cyberlocker file-hosting services. The Megaupload indictment focused on several issues including alleged payments of cash rewards …
In recent weeks millions of people have spoken out against the pending PIPA and SOPA anti-piracy bills, which have both been delayed as a result. Today we can add a VP at one of the major RIAA labels to this list, which is quite unique and yet another …
The majority of the reports and press releases put out by the music industry in the past several years can be summarized in a few words: “Piracy is evil and we lose a lot of money because of it.” Even today, when more music is being sold than ever b …
During August 2007, ‘AMP’ used her cellphone to take explicit pictures of herself. It was a decision she would later regret, and its effects would end up costing a significant amount of money to mitigate. Whilst at University in 2008, AMP’s phone was ei …
With 10 million registered users and more than 2.5 billion page views each month, 4Shared is believed to be the largest file-sharing website. Needless to say, a site of this size can’t possible avoid some of its users occasionally uploading copyrighted …
BitTorrent is by no means a private way to share files, as YouHaveDownloaded demonstrated during recent weeks. However, it also illustrated that BitTorrent use is quite common. Last month, the American Assembly, a non-partisan public policy forum affili …
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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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