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.
Politicians are always going the extra mile for their supporters, and nothing spells that out more clearly than this video, taken from the Canadian Parliaments discussion into C-11, the current attempt to give Hollywood what they want in Canada. In it, …
Last week the Creative Coalition Campaign hosted a conference on anti-piracy measures. One of the key speakers at the event was Gerard Lewis, Vice President of Internet provider Comcast, who informed participants about the upcoming copyright alerts sys …
Starting this summer, the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will start to track down ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement with all major U.S. Internet providers. Last year the parties agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are warne …
Earlier this week one of TorrentFreak’s articles was censored by Google on behalf of a copyright holder. The article in question was mysteriously flagged as being infringing by an automated DMCA takedown tool. An honest mistake according to the people w …
In 2010 a conglomerate of record labels – including the ‘Big Four’ of Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal – went after BitTorrent site isoHunt. The site and its owner are accused of facilitating copyright infringement on a massive scale. Through th …
YouHaveDownloaded is a great resource that reveals what people behind an IP-address have downloaded on BitTorrent. The founders of the site developed the service so people can show what others have been downloading. Over the past weeks we’ve used th …
Last week, Megaupload’s Mega Song was on its way to becoming a viral hit, only to be removed from YouTube by a Universal Music takedown demand. Following the filing of a Megaupload lawsuit the song is now back online, but Universal are standing firm. …
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