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.
When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double checked our sources. …
Yesterday we reported on a porn-industry meeting where they decided to take on BitTorrent and tackle the piracy menace. Today we take a look at some of the pre-meeting arrangements and discussions leading up to the ’round table’ meeting. A message on the G …
As BitTorrent is a swarming technology, more peers usually means faster downloads so finding as many as possible is a good start to getting a quick transfer. Just as information about available peers sharing particular content can be discovered from a …
Most BitTorrent users know what it’s like to be treated like 2nd-class citizens on the internet. If anti-p2p organizations had their way, everyone would believe that every user is a thief, dedicated to bringing the media companies to their knees with i …
When it comes to legislation, the Internet is, for many of the US’ congressional branch, the proverbial unknown quantity. The majority of US politicians are lawyers, and their staffers, trained as they are in law, PR, media relations and other such subject …
Sejas, an Arlington Virgina teenager, recorded a few seconds of the movie on her cell-phone to show her brother. Under a new Zero-Tolerance Policy, police responded to the call from Regal Cinemas who promptly arrested Sejas. The recording didn’t cause …
The ‘Eurobarometer’ study covers many aspects of electronic communication used by kids between the ages of 9 and 14 but of course, we’re interested in the internet section and in particular, file-sharing. When asked how they ‘learned’ how to use the …
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