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.
On Monday 20th September, London lawyers Gallant Macmillan went to court on behalf of their client and huge independent music label Ministry of Sound. Their aim: to obtain the identities of hundreds of alleged file-sharers from UK ISPs. The hearing, Min …
Professor Richard Dawkins needs no introduction and any attempt at one will inevitably fall short considering his impressive track record. With several honorary doctorates and many awards, he is one of the best known and most renowned scientists today. …
The very lucrative turn-piracy-into-profit “speculative invoicing” model has leapt over the Atlantic to the United States and, as with most things stateside, it’s likely to be bigger than ever before. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a company known …
In his self-written mass-infringement notice entitled “Notification of digital copies of legally bought DVD movies,” frustrated citizen Henrik Andersen confesses all to an anti-piracy outfit, in the hope of sparking debate on the catch 22 situation he and …
There can hardly be a reader who hasn’t read about the raging debate sparked by Lily Allen and her now-defunct anti-piracy blog/campaign. It has been quite the hot topic this week. Up until yesterday, Lily was one of the most prominent supporters of a p …
In his article ‘Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On’, Jamie King cut through much of the doom and gloom of the last week and took a refreshingly optimistic view of how the sale of The Old Pirate Bay might not necessarily be the death-to …
After their successful debut album Fleet Foxes’ singer Robin Pecknold immediately made it clear that he dislikes the corporate greed that surrounds the major record labels. “Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world cho …
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