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.
Founded in 1993, RISCISO was a warez release group, dedicated to the distribution of the latest software and media. RISCISO is an acronym representing ‘Rise in Superior Couriering’ and ISO, which refers to an ISO 9660 disk image. According to the US …
With an estimated one million people downloading aXXo rips every month, aXXo is very popular with BitTorrent fans all over the world. But as is so often the case, fame comes at a price and it’s almost inevitable that people will jump onto the back of oth …
How? Well, we started to run Google Adwords campaigns on the Bitroll, Torrent101 and Torrentq websites. In just four days the ads were shown 20,000 times, the clickthrough rate was impressive, and the ads probably prevented more than one thousand people in …
So, SoundExchange keeps collection the money, and holds on to it until the rightful owners collect it. Apparently they don’t try too hard to track down the artists, because there are some well know artists in their “unpaid artist” list who are probably jus …
Here is a brief rundown of the Top 10 along with links to the project’s SourceForge page. Azureus is the first BitTorrent client in the list, with well over 138 million downloads. (Correct at 13:00GMT) Rank Project Downloads …
Salvador Nunez Jr. has a special sister. As a member of The International Animated Film Society and an Oscars voter, she is one of the privileged few who gain access to the latest movies far in advance of the general public. For members of ‘The Scene’ …
Tip: Want to download Torrents anonymously? Try TorrentPrivacy, the only way to download torrents securely. To make these traps more visible, Fenopy just introduced the FakeFinder. The FakeFinder lists the most popular fake torrents and the latest fa …
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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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