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.
In December last year it became publicly known that the movie industry had begun the first practical steps to having a file-sharing related website blocked at the ISP level in the UK. In reality the MPAA’s steps against Usenet indexing site Newzbin had …
In late March or very early April 2010, a fairly unusual and in parts quite ingenious piece of malware started circulating. After a Windows user was infected with a file – iqmanager.exe in a sub-directory of /documents and settings – the badware went to wo …
In recent years pro-copyright lobbyists have pushed governments worldwide to adopt harsher anti-piracy legislation. Thus far they’ve booked several successes, with the controversial trade agreement ACTA as the most important victory. But there’s more. Tomo …
Following its 2009 out-of-court settlement with Ireland’s largest ISP Eircom, last week IRMA – representing EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner – confirmed the pair would start tracking, warning and disconnecting alleged file-sharers. Armed with trackin …
A curious case has just been heard in The Netherlands which has led a court to arrive to a rather surprising decision. It began when Dutch movie studio Eyeworks applied for a court injunction to stop Usenet community FTD from “making available to the pu …
The people who work at the anti-piracy divisions of Warner Bros. and other large media companies have to be experts in file-sharing technology. It is therefore no surprise that Warner Bros. is actively recruiting students for a job as Anti-Piracy Intern, a …
On April 17th of last year, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom were found guilty of ‘assisting in making copyright content available.’ The District Court sentenced the defendants to one year in prison and a fine of $905,00 …
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