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.
With millions of daily users BitTorrent is a great platform for filmmakers and musicians to promote their work. One of the main challenges that independent content producers face today is not piracy, but finding ways to to get their work noticed. This is w …
The RIAA and the company behind Limewire have been fighting out a legal dispute since 2006, but in recent weeks the case seems to have been moving along faster than ever before. Last month, a US Court ruled that the Lime Group, the company behind Lime …
With more than 400 million active users, Facebook is by far the largest social networking site. Not surprisingly, the service is also an often used tool for torrent site admins to communicate with users. Both users and site admins have been pleased with …
Last Wednesday the Digital Economy Bill was forced through by the UK Government. Under the new law copyright holders have the power to spy on those who infringe their rights, which may ultimately lead to file-sharers being disconnected from the Internet. I …
BitTorrent has emerged as the dominant filesharing protocol in recent years. Hundreds of millions of computers have a BitTorrent client installed and torrent sites are among the most frequently visited websites on the Internet. BitTorrent’s leading role …
Following police raids in 2004, it eventually took 4 years to find Christian Riesen, the admin of eDonkey site ShareReactor, guilty of copyright infringement. After all that time and effort, he was ordered to pay a fine of just $4,200. Up until now, Swi …
Much like the movie industry, the major record labels have made a habit of attributing decreasing income from album and single sales to illegal downloading. Aside from the fact that most research has found no direct link between piracy and a decrease in sa …
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