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.
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 …
While there are countless lawsuits being filed in the U.S. targeting alleged BitTorrent users, at the moment On The Cheap, LLC vs Does 1-5011 is generating particular interest. The case is one of the porn-based BitTorrent lawsuits filed late last year …
This article is a (rather lengthy) guest contribution from Joe Karaganis, vice president at The American Assembly at Columbia University and former Program Director at the Social Science Research Council. Karaganis is also responsible for the most objectiv …
Earlier today we already wrote about the lawsuit that The Hurt Locker makers filed against 24,583 alleged BitTorrent users. As it turns out they sued a dead person, which could be an indication that the defendant didn’t download anything at all. But …
Born in London in 1892, John William Cotter began his career in film during 1909. At the age of 17 he became the projectionist at the Palace theater in Woolwich, a job that was interrupted in 1914 by the outbreak of World War I. During the hostilities, …
Although New Zealand’s Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 doesn’t come officially into force until 1st September, last week saw the beginning of P2P network monitoring which can be backed up by action under the new legislation. As …
Last week UK business secretary Vince Cable confirmed that the website blocking provisions put in place under the country’s controversial Digital Economy Act would be abandoned. Communications regulator OFCOM had been asked to conduct a review to see if …
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