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 that time of year again. The colds, the coughs, the sneezes and shivers are either here already or just around the corner. Cutting through the marketing hype, in reality there is little one can do to avoid 4 to 7 days of feeling moderately awful. N …
With the historic win in the Berlin state parliament elections just four weeks behind us, the German Pirate Party continues to gain momentum. Recent polls for the federal elections show that the Pirate Party is now polling double digits across the count …
As the spiritual home and birthplace of The Pirate Bay, it was perhaps inevitable that Sweden would feel the heat from the entertainment industries in a way few other countries have. Relentless pressure from Hollywood and the US recording industry has e …
Since October 2010, the French government agency set up to police the country’s file-sharers have been busy sending out infringement warnings. By early September 2011, ISP account holders on their first strike from Hadopi had swelled to 650,000, while t …
Last year a new device came along which sought to ride the wave of new-style digital media consumption. The Freebox Revolution, from French ISP ‘Free’, consists of a hardware player and separate server offering 300 TV channels, catch-up TV, VOD, NAS hard d …
Hundreds of torrent sites, private BitTorrent trackers in particular, allow their users to donate money in exchange for extra features. In part, the site owners use this money to keep their sites afloat, but if it’s up to anti-piracy watchdog BREIN, this t …
In the morning of September 23 last year, a team of 8 police officers, assisted by a member of the Hollywood-backed Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), raided a house in Salisbury, England. They arrested a then 31 year-old man, known online as S …
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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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