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.
Setting up a portable uTorrent is easy. 1. Download the latest standalone version, and copy it onto your datastick. 2. Create an empty datafile with notepad or any other text editor, and name it settings.dat 3. Place the settings.dat file in the …
Well, lets take a sneak peek under the hood of your BitTorrent client, and list a couple of features that make BitTorrent as fast, stable, and robust as it is. How it all Starts BitTorrent starts with chopping a file into small pieces, the person who …
The Big Four record labels will do anything, anything, rather than work up front with their customers and with the independent innovators who are, so far, wholly and solely responsible for turning p2p into the primary communications and distribution media …
We’ve all seen those download pages where a couple of http, ftp and BitTorrent mirrors are listed. We often just pick one of there, but wouldn’t it be great if you could use them all at the same time? Metalinker has the solution. It works like this, …
Why? Well very simple, it’s better to embrace new technologies like BitTorrent and other filesharing networks, than to fight them. As Mark Achbar puts it: “When I discovered that over 500,000 people had downloaded The Corporation, I had mixed fee …
I’ve been testing the Allpeers extension for a couple of weeks now. The current version allows you to add friends to your buddy list, and share files with these people. Adding a file is easy, you just drag ‘n drop, and select who you want to share the file …
After two weeks of extensive testing I think I’m able to write a proper review (of the bt part). Lets start with a general overview of the specs: 160GB Built internal 3.5″ Hard Drive 3 USB 2.0 ports Web/FTP Server Photo Album/Message Board Wiza …
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