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.
Movie industry lobbyists such as the MPAA frequently claim that piracy is not only hurting the major studios, but also the smaller independent productions. However, according to independant filmmaker Mark Diestler, it’s not that black and white. Last w …
While there is nothing inherently ‘unsafe’ about the Direct Connect file-sharing client when compared to similar systems, users often choose to share their entire media libraries with the world, all at once, and in the same place. In the statistically unli …
A story currently unfolding in the Netherlands painfully exposes the double standards and corruption that can be found in some parts of the copyright industry. It all started back in 2006, when the Hollywood-funded anti-piracy group BREIN reportedly as …
Having failed to make any significant impact on the growth of P2P file-sharing by directly attacking or threatening sites such as The Pirate Bay, countries are turning to other methods to tackle the issue. As witnessed through the recent media storms su …
It’s almost six years since Rick Falkvinge decided to enter politics and found the first Pirate Party in Sweden. The Party quickly gained the interest of the mainstream media and at the Swedish general elections in the same year it became the third larg …
The past 100 years have seen a vast array of technical advances in broadcasting, multiplication and transmissions of culture, but equally much misguided legislators who sought to preserve the old at expense of the new, just because the old was complaining. …
When the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits were starting to crop up in the United States last year, attorney Mike Meier was quick to promote himself as a defense lawyer. The DC attorney was proudly listed on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s list of lawyers …
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