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.
Leaks of albums on the Internet are hardly a new phenomenon but while most labels suppress their anger, London-based Ninja Tune have taken the opposite approach by naming and shaming the people they believe are responsible. Ninja Tune, the label founded …
As unofficially announced last month, a coalition of entertainment industry groups and several major U.S Internet providers have teamed up to curb online piracy. At the center of their plan is a system to notify and educate suspected copyright infringe …
Some scientists devote their lives to finding a cure for terminal illnesses, others hope to discover new planets in galaxies far away, but there’s also a group of scientists mostly concerned with improving BitTorrent. The Tribler team at Delft University …
Developed by a team of Russian coders, MediaGet was first released to the public in February 2010. At the time the client was only available in Russian, but through partnerships with various websites the client reached its millionth download within a few m …
Let’s start off by saying that running a reliable tracker with tens of thousands of peers is not something everyone is capable of. It requires the right skills and expertise to keep everything running smoothly. Also, larger trackers such as PublicBitTorren …
Last month the private BitTorrent tracker XNT.nu was raided, a site which had risen from the ashes of other sites shut down by the authorities in 2009. The raid and arrests in this new case have now claimed another casualty in the form of Piratetorrents.nu …
Settled in China, the BitComet team has been steadily improving their BitTorrent client over the past several years. This work has resulted in some notable achievements in recent months. In April of this year BitComet was the first of all major BitTorre …
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