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 fall, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. By filing a mass-BitTorrent lawsuit the company became one of the many copyright holders who together have sued a quarter million people in the countr …
The Pirate Bay is not happy with the “anonymous” groups who decided to DDoS Virgin Media for complying with a court order. Last week Virgin was the fist ISP to block The Pirate Bay. According to The Pirate Bay these DDoS attempts go against a free In …
In 2004 Google was sued by Perfect 10. The adult publisher demanded a permanent injunction against Google to prevent it from copying and distributing thumbnails of its images, and to stop the search engine from linking to websites where Perfect 10 content …
The Pirate Bay renamed itself to The Research Bay today for a collaboration with the Cybernorms research group at Lund University. The notorious BitTorrent site is encouraging visitors to take part in the survey into people’s file-sharing habits and the …
Microblogging platform Tumblr has been sued for millions of dollars by adult publisher Perfect 10. Perfect 10 are no strangers to lawsuits. From 2005 to the present day they have sued several huge companies for either allegedly using their images withou …
A few weeks after Megaupload was shutdown ValCom and Microhits sues the cyberlocker for copyright infringement. In what can be characterized as a trolling venture, the companies ask for millions of dollars in damages. Megaupload, however, has its h …
A few days ago the latest uTorrent alpha release saw the light. Among other things, the new version aims to make downloads even faster for users with high bandwidth connections. But there was something else quite unique about the release. Those who …
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