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.
… for example, and the login, register, comment and upload functions are disabled for security reasons. So, even if the new IP-address is added to the various blocklists, the new site still functions as a basis for proxy sites. The above once again shows that it’s …
… of information and its admins were acquitted. From a functional viewpoint this site was similar to SurfTheChannel. However, the …
… downloaders. This is exactly what the Microsoft funded startup Pirate Pay appears to be doing although other companies may also … contacted the CEO of the Microsoft-funded Pirate Pay for a comment on the legality of his service, but we are yet …
… of motion pictures and other copyrighted works and to fund payments for computer servers. The same document also reveals that the …
Although Pirate Bay downtime happens a handful of times each month, it rarely persists for more than a few hours. When it goes beyond that the steady flow of reader emails to TorrentFreak quickly transforms itself into a torrent. At the time of writing …
Despite the best efforts of Dutch lobby groups, and American entertainment cartels, the internet is a place where barriers don’t stay barriers for long. Throw a roadblock out and a new route is recalculated. So it is with DNS. Add blocks in the ICANN sy …
… the responsibility of the site’s users. The Pirate Bay’s function, he says, was “to allow the free dissemination of information via … the torrent file information itself wasn’t illegal, the function should be covered by Article 10. He adds that he will also ask for …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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