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.
At TorrentFreak we have a habit of ignoring commentary on other sites, but sometimes we make an exception. Especially when it comes from the esteemed Dan Mitchell, who has written for Fortune, the New York Times, Slate, Wired, National Public Radio, the …
Starting in 2010, US authorities have used domain name seizures as a standard tool to take down websites that are deemed to facilitate copyright infringement. Despite fierce criticism from the public, legal experts and civil liberties groups, taking co …
Leading up to today’s hearing in Washington, there has been a lot of talk about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Aside from making streaming of copyrighted content a felony, the pending bill aims to make it easier to put sites that facilitate copyrig …
According to the official MPAA blog, this week there have been some meetings in the U.S. with representatives of the Chinese film industry. Everything went really well, with everyone patting each other on the back and acknowledging how great everyone is …
In a response to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), the MPAA has submitted a new list of “notorious markets” they say promote illegal distribution of movies and TV-shows. The filing is particularly interesting since U. …
We’ve covered all kinds of anti-piracy stories here on TorrentFreak, but what you are about to read has to rank up there as one of the most unusual. Even now we’re still scratching our heads and rubbing our chins. At the end of May 2011 a leaked copy of …
Timo Vuorensol, the director of the upcoming Finnish-German-Australian dark sci-fi comedy Iron Sky contacted TorrentFreak with this unusual story earlier today. Late last week the film’s creators found out that the Chinese game company Ziiso was creatin …
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