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.
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 …
In January, when mininova celebrated its second anniversary, they passed the 1 billion download mark. It wasn’t really a surprise that getting to 2 billion wouldn’t take another 2 years, but not many expected that it would happen this fast. Niek, the fo …
Earlier this year, 500 people received letters accusing them of illegally distributing a computer game. The letters demand a settlement payment, or a court appearance was threatened. Many people wondered how they were caught at all, while others claimed …
The idea here is to give an overview of anti-p2p activity. This is by no means an exhaustive report but the aim is to give a summary of some of the companies developing a new industry – one dedicated to disrupting the activities of file-sharers. Founded …
On his LiveJournal blog Bram writes: “Maybe he’s talking trash because he invested $1.7 million in a ‘BitTorrent-like’ company. He’s been transparent about such motivations before. That said, he does has some claim to punditry in the bandwidth space be …
Webby artists of 2005, The Kleptones will be producing the soundtrack for the movie. The Kleptones are known for their mash-ups of rap, rock and R&B music. This week they started their podcast at the project website. This first podcasts is a ‘moodcast’ to …
The leaked RTM version is called “Microsoft Windows Vista Final BillGates,” which is a copy of the release that was sent out to manufacturing companies three days ago. Co-president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division, Jim Allchin called the V …
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