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.
Every single week new lawsuits are filed aimed at discovering the identities of individuals who allegedly share copyright material online without the permission of rightsholders. Most often these lawsuits are filed by porn companies, independent movie s …
When we first discovered Jamendo more than 5 years ago the site was hosting 500 albums, mostly from French artists. Fast forward to today and Jamendo features work from 38,000 artists from all around the world, who together have published 315,000 tracks …
With millions of daily users BitTorrent is a great platform for filmmakers and musicians to promote their work. One of the main challenges that independent content producers face today is not piracy, but finding ways to to get their work noticed. This is w …
Almost everyone in the file-sharing community understands the concept and menace of fake files. Movies with adware or spyware attached or even music tracks that turn out to be completely blank. Fake files are always nothing but a menace – until now that is …
Most people who have been exposed to his music would agree, Prince is a truly great artist having written and produced literally hundreds of mostly good tracks. Back in May, Prince announced the “Earth Tour” consisting of many concerts at the very r …
Desert bus is probably one of the best games ever. Unfortunately the game was never released, until now. 11 years after the planned release date Waxy is hosting a torrent for this mythical game. The game is part of a long-lost Penn and Teller videogame. …
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