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.
Last Friday, file-hosting service Megaupload surprised the Internet by launching a campaign fronted by a Printz Board-produced song featuring some of the world’s most prominent recording artists. Needless to say, the spectacle of P Diddy, Will.i.am, Ali …
Make no mistake, the biggest entertainment companies in the world do not like file-hosting site MegaUpload. Update January 2012: MegaUpload Taken Down, Seized by the Feds Currently the huge cyberlocker resides on the destroy-them-all SOPA-directed “r …
… shared via Twitter, they are not clickable in IM apps like GTalk and MSN, and can be unfriendly on the eye. The Mgnet.me service changes …
… in the last year to make way for Forza 3 and the classic GTA IV. And in just over two weeks the whole cycle of madness will start all …
We’ve covered DRM problems in the past, but we’ve never come across DRM before thats deliberately designed to terminate a game regardless of the consumers actions – until now. The Microsoft published Epic Studios game, Gears of War, is now unplayable to al …
… games for the PSP in 2008 were Final Fantasy VII and GTA Vice City Stories, with an estimated 650,000 and 550,000 downloads. As a …
… of Duty 4 (830,000) (Nov. 2007) 7 GTA San Andreas (740,000) (Jun. 2005) 8 Fallout 3 …
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