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 DNS issues caused trouble for thousands of users over the past few days. Accessing OiNK was only possible by manually hacking into the hosts file. Unfortunately the legal issues with the domain registrar (Nominet) seemed to be unsolvable. The disput …
If you don’t like torrents try MP3 Search. The site carries in excess of 50,000 albums from 46,000 artists. Prices start at $0.19 per track. Most tracks are in high quality bitrate, 320 kbps. The site accepts major credit cards. A few people have be …
Trey Harrison is a 29 year old, living in Los Angeles with his girlfriend and a couple of cats. He enjoys writing music and creating music videos and has just invested the last 7 years to bring out a PC application called ‘Salvation’. “I imagined it …
Here at TorrentFreak we’ve addressed the issue of ISP traffic shaping many times, offering tutorials on how to minimize it’s effects and detailing its benefits. Essentially, when your ISP traffic-shapes he attempts to control how you use your bandw …
Rather than manually trawling many torrent sites hunting for material, most will agree it’s much more convenient for the content to come to the user, especially when it’s possible to take advantage of the RSS feature built into many BitTorrent clients. …
TorrentFreak readers will already be familiar with the Swiss anti-piracy company Logistep who partnered German games publisher Zuxxez in tracking down hundreds of file-sharers in the UK alleged to have uploaded the game Dream Pinball. These actions wer …
At the end of March we reported on the German company Zuxxez (Topware in the UK), who had employed UK lawyers Davenport Lyons to go after alleged uploaders of the company’s Dream Pinballl game. We revealed how a Swiss company was hired to track file-sh …
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