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.
This article is a (rather lengthy) guest contribution from Joe Karaganis, vice president at The American Assembly at Columbia University and former Program Director at the Social Science Research Council. Karaganis is also responsible for the most objectiv …
Early 2010, USCG imported the mass-BitTorrent lawsuit scheme into the United States. Since then the group has sued tens of thousands of alleged BitTorrent users, and other lawyers have been quick to copy their tactics. Thus far the results in court have …
Until recently PHP.net, the home of the world-famous PHP scripting language, had a pretty dark secret – a secret stash of pirate movies, music and software. According to a report from SEO Whistlerblower Stephen Chapman, not only did an unsecure director …
When it comes to copyright, we’re constantly hearing how the big companies are spending untold amounts of money to ‘create’ content, only for it to be ‘stolen’ by people downloading it. Less often we hear of the reverse; big companies infringing the copyri …
Earlier today we already wrote about the lawsuit that The Hurt Locker makers filed against 24,583 alleged BitTorrent users. As it turns out they sued a dead person, which could be an indication that the defendant didn’t download anything at all. But …
Last week GigaOm’s co-editor Janko Roettgers published a piece in which he noted that the economic downturn has the potential to push some movie-buying customers beyond their financial limits. Instead of buying movies and TV shows, Janko mused, they might …
Journalist Janko Roettgers has been writing about file-sharing and piracy issues longer than most and his P2P-Blog is a collection of good articles dating back many years. Janko hasn’t been so prolific on that specific subject in recent times because as …
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