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.
The recent outrage over the PROTECT IP and SOPA proposals has been unprecedented. While opposition to new legislation is hardly a new phenomenon, it’s rare for so many entities to disagree with the stances of the mainstream entertainment industries. Ove …
A third co-founder of the now-defunct video streaming portal NinjaVideo has plead guilty. According to an indictment, Justin A. Dedemko, 28, of Brooklyn, N.Y was responsible for uploading content NinjaVideo and marketing the site. Of the total $505,0 …
Following the mid-2010 ‘first round’ of the ongoing “Operation in Our Sites”, five people connected to NinjaVideo streaming movie and TV show portal were indicted by a federal grand jury in September. The latest to plead guilty are Joshua David …
During November last year, the Swedish Court of Appeal found three people behind The Pirate Bay guilty of criminal copyright infringement offenses. Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström were handed prison sentences and ordered to pay millions of …
At the end of June last year, nine sites connected to movie streaming were targeted by the U.S. government, including NinjaVideo.net, one of the Internet’s most prominent video streaming sites. It was the first round in the ongoing “Operation in Our S …
It is almost apologetic. Apologetic for defending the civil rights that our ancestors fought, bled and died to give us, their children and grandchildren. Thinking about what hurts and doesn’t hurt sales misses the point entirely. A corporation’s profits …
Timo Vuorensol, the director of the upcoming Finnish-German-Australian dark sci-fi comedy Iron Sky contacted TorrentFreak with this unusual story earlier today. Late last week the film’s creators found out that the Chinese game company Ziiso was creatin …
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