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.
A few prominent BitTorrent search engines are celebrating their 8th anniversary this year. On July 24 Torrentz silently celebrated its birthday, and this week it’s isoHunt’s turn. They even have a special anniversary t-shirt designed for the hardcore f …
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 …
uTorrent has come a long way since it first saw the light of day in the fall of 2005. What started out as a minimalist and no-nonsense client targeted at an already BitTorrent-savvy crowd, has slowly become an application that does far more than downloadin …
Privacy is important on the Internet, and BitTorrent users are certainly not excluded. Already, hundreds of thousands of BitTorrent users have decided to hide their IP-address to the public, and more are joining every day. Some use specialized BitTo …
GroupM is a leading player in the advertising world, spending several billion dollars buying ads on websites each year. The company represents many top brands worldwide and has more than 17,000 employees and 400 offices. In keeping with a company of its …
While the MPAA has shown a major interest in torrent sites over the years, their counterparts in the music industry have tended to focus their legal action on individuals and “shared folder” type services such as Napster, Kazaa, Grokster and more recently, …
Last Thursday the public prosecutor of the Sardinian capital Cagliari ordered a nationwide blackout of BTjunkie. Italian ISPs have to block both the IP addresses of the site and its domain name as the BitTorrent site is an alleged hotbed for online piracy …
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