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.
Director Alex Winter is working on a documentary covering the rise and fall of Napster. Napster’s Sean Parker had a key role in the Facebook film The Social Network, but his story and that of Napster’s founder Shawn Fanning will now be told in a brand n …
Music royalty collection agencies are known for going to extremes to claim money on behalf of artists and music composers. They target schools and kids’ community centers, charge charities for the singing of Christmas carols without a license, and ev …
In the last year various copyright holders have sued well over 100,000 alleged file-sharers in the United States alone. The purpose of these lawsuits is to obtain the personal details of the alleged infringers, and use this information to negotiate a settl …
In the past decade the Internet has radically changed people’s media consumption habits, and the same can be said for the effect of the web on social change movements. Although the role of Twitter and Facebook in the recent revolutions in the Middle Eas …
Last month the High Court began a judicial review of the controversial Digital Economy Act (DEA). The review was ordered after the legislation, which was rushed through by the previous Labour government, was met with complaints from two of the UK’s biggest …
When ACS:Law burst onto the file-sharing litigation business scene in mid-2009, the similarities between their modus operandi and that of Davenport Lyons, the company that had pioneered the ‘pay-up-or-else’ scheme, were clear. Since we were interested i …
In a letter addressed to Kira Alvarez, Chief Negotiator and Deputy Assistant for Intellectual Property Enforcement at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the MPAA has submitted a list of online and physical locations where unauthorized mo …
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Privacy is important on the Internet, and BitTorrent users are certainly not excluded. Already, hundreds of...
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BitTorrent can be fun, as long as you get decent speeds. Not satisfied with your current...