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.
Two weeks ago the Court of The Hague ordered several ISPs to prevent subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay. The ruling is a win for the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN, but it’s not the end of the legal dispute. Two Dutch Internet providers said …
According to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in Poland, BitTorrent’s uTP protocol is under attack. The security experts have observed a massive spike in activity compared to 2011, mostly originating from locations in Russia, Canada, China, A …
On February 1st, Sweden’s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running criminal case against the founders of The Pirate Bay. This meant that the previously determined jail sentences and fines handed out to Pete …
Last fall, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. By filing a mass-BitTorrent lawsuit the company became one of the many copyright holders who together have sued a quarter million people in the countr …
The Pirate Bay renamed itself to The Research Bay today for a collaboration with the Cybernorms research group at Lund University. The notorious BitTorrent site is encouraging visitors to take part in the survey into people’s file-sharing habits and the …
This week censorship of The Pirate Bay is the hot topic and inevitably online discussion has centered on the main issue – how this censorship can be circumvented. A selection of methods were suggested by the site’s operators, all of them very easy to ca …
When we last covered Jamendo 10 months ago, we noted it had “one of the greatest libraries of free music online”. Yet a site redesign last week might put Jamendo in jeopardy. The new design, which went live almost a week ago, contains very little i …
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