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.
While the RIAA has a track record of going after individual file-sharers and services such as LimeWire, the music industry has never targeted any file-sharing sites. Despite this lack of action, the RIAA sees BitTorrent sites as the main source of music …
Whether intended or not, a lowly user comment posted to Digital Music News during October has seen its online status upgraded from mere footnote, to the basis of what could be the largest music copyright infringement suit since LimeWire. In his or her c …
With well over 100 million active users a month, uTorrent is without doubt the most-used BitTorrent client. Thus far all versions of uTorrent have been free of charge, but earlier this year uTorrent’s parent company announced the forthcoming release of …
Earlier this year Alki David and a handful of artists sued CBS Interactive and CNET for their role in distributing LimeWire and other P2P and DRM-cracking software. In July the lawsuit was pulled, but David promised to come back later in the year wit …
Anyone who says that piracy is only helping or hurting content creators is wrong. Piracy has a different effect in each unique case. Not only does it differ between the gaming, music, book and movie industries, but also between the relative popularity o …
To those who are not that tech-savvy, file-sharing applications that share all files by default can pose a threat. This is one of the main reasons why the FTC filed a complaint against FrostWire at a federal court. The government agency, which aims to …
The RIAA have been killing file-sharing services for more than a decade, but despite spending a fortune closing Napster, Grokster and LimeWire, music is even more widely available online than ever before, just from different sources. BitTorrent aside, s …
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