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 recent months hundreds of thousands of people have been accused of downloading and sharing copyrighted material on BitTorrent, often in cases related to adult content. A significant number of the defendants are likely to be guilty, but there’s also …
Journalist Janko Roettgers has been writing about file-sharing and piracy issues longer than most and his P2P-Blog is a collection of good articles dating back many years. Janko hasn’t been so prolific on that specific subject in recent times because as …
March last year the law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver imported the mass litigation “pay up or else” anti-piracy scheme to the United States, and in the month that followed they targeted nearly 100,000 people. In total, cases have been filed against …
Over the last year several mass-lawsuits were started against so-called ‘John Doe’ defendants, who are only identified by their IP-address. However, at the same time a handful of copyright holders have also launched cases against named BitTorrent users. …
Let it be clear. We’re not advocating that legitimate copyright holders should be completely disallowed from taking copyright infringers to court. However, the recent surge in BitTorrent related lawsuits has nothing to do with what copyright was ever i …
In recent months we’ve written dozens of articles on copyright trolls and BitTorrent mass-lawsuits. The aim of these cases is to get the suspected copyright infringer to settle for a few thousand dollars, in what we’ve dubbed a “pay-up-or-else” scheme. …
Since 2010 more than 175,000 people have been sued for online copyright related offenses in the U.S. All of these defendants are accused of sharing films on P2P networks without the consent of copyright holders. Unlike other lawsuits, the aim of the cop …
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