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.
By now the story is well known. Law firm Davenport Lyons initiated the now-infamous anti-piracy settlement work in the UK but backed out due to bad publicity. ACS:Law, somehow thinking things would be different for them, took on the work expecting an easy …
“Of course we’re not happy when people are pirating our games, so we are signing with legal firms and torrent sneaking companies,” said CD Projekt co-founder Marcin Iwinski back in November 2010. TorrentFreak wasn’t really surprised by the stateme …
It’s no secret that congressman Jared Polis is not a fan of SOPA. He is among the representatives who support the SOPA alternative #OPEN. But, little known is the fact that one of the reasons for Rep. Polis to oppose SOPA is the threat it poses to th …
In May 2011, the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) and the Finnish branch of the music industry group IFPI filed a lawsuit the District Court of Helsinki. The groups demanded that local ISP Elisa should be forced to protect the copyri …
BitTorrent Inc. is mostly known for the development of the uTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline clients, but today the company adds another piece of software to its arsenal. Dubbed “Share,” the new application is targeted at people who want to share large …
The Gamer/Law blog is written by Jas Purewal, a London-based games lawyer. Late December a guest article appeared there titled ‘The Internet v CD Projekt: a Legal Perspective’ by gamer and law student John Wrigley. Today, Purewal published another on th …
With WordPress pretty much anyone can set up a personal blog or small website in a few minutes, and thanks to the new WP-Trader plugin it becomes just as easy to start a fully operational torrent site. The levels of work and expertise required to run …
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