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.
“WARNING: All songs on this promo CD are voice-over protected to avoid any piracy and illegal file uploading on the internet before the release date” This is the message printed on the cover of protected CDs. Most filesharers are probably familiar with …
The Pirate’s Dilemma: The Problem With Information (and how to fix it) BY MATT MASON The same way light confuses scientists by existing as particles and waves at the same time, information increasingly seems to confuse us. Information is getting chea …
La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France (SPPF), which represents recording labels in France, is suing three P2P software vendors, Shareaza, Azureus and Morpheus. They are suing because recent French legislation suggests that all P2P programs m …
Earlier on this year we reported many times about UK law firm Davenport Lyons threatening hundreds of people it accused of sharing the Zuxxez game, Dream Pinball 3D. Davenport Lyons hired Swiss company Logistep to collect data about alleged file-sharer …
Here at TorrentFreak we have covered the actions of Swiss anti-piracy outfit Logistep many, many times. As with the infamous Dream Pinball affair, their business model is pretty much the same across the board. They work together with media companies such a …
Mr Cameron stated during the speech, that it will be Conservative policy to increase copyright terms from 50 years, to 70, echoing the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extention Act of 1998, which increased US copyright terms by 20 years. The reasoning behind th …
LimeWire just doesn’t want to die; it’s digging in against the pressure to settle with the RIAA and is refusing to join the likes of Grokster, Kazaa, iMesh, Bearshare and MetaMachine (eDonkey) in the ‘where are they now?’ department of P2P file-sharing. Th …
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