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 news this week that CD Projekt, the company behind The Witcher games, would cease their pay-up-or-else file-sharing settlement scheme against Internet account holders was welcome. As highlighted dozens of times before, companies making these accusat …
With millions of people using BitTorrent every day, the protocol has been the leading P2P technology from more than half a decade. Despite massive competition from cyberlockers, BitTorrent continues to expand year after year, and not just by a little. T …
The copyright trolls at Righthaven made a business out of scouring the net for websites that have used even the smallest parts of their partner newspapers’ materials and then threatening them with legal action. If one outfit deserves the label copyrig …
Translated as “Financial Guard”, Guardia di Finanza (GdF) is a department under Italy’s Minister of Economy and Finance and actually part of the Italian Armed Forces. It is tasked with dealing with financial crime and smuggling, and is increasingly involve …
Mid-2010, nine sites connected to movie streaming were targeted by the U.S. government. They included NinjaVideo.net, at the time one of the Internet’s most prominent video streaming sites. This ‘first round’ in the ongoing “Operation in Our Sites …
Solid research on the scope and effects of BitTorrent downloads is rare. Reports sponsored by the entertainment industries are usually biased and some of the more academic studies contain major methodological flaws. It’s not all bad though, a recent pap …
In its continuing battle to squeeze every last dollar from its PPV events, the UFC has filed a lawsuit against a gym which unlawfully screened one of their events. The target in the lawsuit is Without Limits MMA, a gym in Batesville, AR along with its o …
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