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.
Today we publish two opinion pieces from copyright lawyers who are familiar with the mass-lawsuits against alleged BitTorrent users in the U.S. Both lawyers discuss whether someone can be held liable for the copyright infringements committed by others o …
The record labels would have you believe that Napster and now BitTorrent are ushering in the Dark Age of music, but really it’s just the Dark Age of the music industry; music as an art form is on the brink of a new renaissance. Here’s a countdown of th …
For an old-timer like me, 15 years-old is a distant dream of a growing interest in the opposite sex but too much homework to do anything about it, a developing adult mind restricted by loving parents who prefer to keep a child, and a general desire to be o …
For Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Columbia and Warner, their battle with the Hotfile cyberlocker service is developing into a costly and complicated affair. The MPAA, who would love a decisive victory against a cyberlocker service under thei …
Legal procedures against file-sharing related sites and services are regular events and hardly a week goes by without a handful of stories appearing online. Most are the usual affairs with sites hosting illegal material directly or, as is most often the ca …
Let it be clear. We’re not advocating that legitimate copyright holders should be completely disallowed from taking copyright infringers to court. However, the recent surge in BitTorrent related lawsuits has nothing to do with what copyright was ever i …
The adult entertainment industry is waging a war against supposed copyright infringers in the U.S. courts, suing tens of thousands of individuals and several businesses. By now the cases against alleged BitTorrent downloaders are well-publicized, but the c …
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Privacy is important on the Internet, and BitTorrent users are certainly not excluded. Already, hundreds of...
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