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.
BitTorrent is working on a new and improved version that will incorporate superseeding by cachelogics servers. This means that the content will be copied to cachelogic servers to dramatically increase the download speeds. Currently, “regular” BitTo …
A bug in the popular torrentbits tracker code makes it extremely easy to increase your ratio on most private torrent sites. With HTTP analyser and Firefox you can increase your upload/download ratio pretty easy. Leeching without being recognized as a leech …
TIOTI, short for “tape it off the internet”, is about to enter the BETA stage. The first invites will be sent on May 25. We have a preview of some of the TIOTI goodness. Sign up for invites now. What is TIOTI? It’s a revolutionary approach to soc …
Burger King and Myspace join forces. They will start selling episodes of the popular TV-Show “24″. The first episodes of season 1 and 5 will be for free, just to warm the customers up, the other episodes will cost for $1.99 per download. They will …
John Naughton wrote a great column about the announced cooperation between Warner and BitTorrent earlier this week. It’s a good thing that Hollywood is embracing BitTorrent, but not like this. The great thing about BitTorrent is that it has really i …
Slyck interviewed BitTorrent CEO Ashwin Navin. They talk about the future of BitTorrent, their cooperation with the MPAA, Azureus & uTorrent and a lot more. The edited Slyck version can be found here. — Tom: So what do you think one of the b …
Times are changing. It’s just a matter of time before Hollywood’s first blockbuster will have its premiere online and in theatres at the same time. And BitTorrent will probably play a significant role in this “culture shock”. A great example of a su …
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