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.
This is a guest article from UK rapper Dan Bull. Sharing Is Caring Yesterday a young lad asked me, “Dan Bull in the charts? Is this a ‘fuck off’ to the record industry then?” Good question, I thought. What do I really want to say to the entertainm …
With millions of daily visitors FilesTube is among the most frequently visited websites on the Internet. Founded in 2007, the Polish-operated site is the largest meta-search engine for content hosted on cyberlockers such as Hotfile, 4Shared and Mediaf …
Since the unexpected shutdown of Megaupload in January there has been significant realignment in the cyberlocker market, with many sites changing their business models and some pulling out of the business altogether. For RapidShare, one of the market le …
In what became known as the iiTrial, the marathon four-year legal battle that began in November 2008, a consortium of Hollywood Studios with token Australian representation going under the banner of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) …
According to a US indictment, Kim Dotcom and the rest of the “Mega Conspiracy” were running a criminal operation. They are accused of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money launder …
For years, when people suggested that the labels should adapt their business models to the digital age and compete with piracy, but the RIAA claimed that it’s impossible to compete with free. Today the RIAA takes this notion back. “The single most im …
The Internet’s Domain Name System, which translates human-readable URLs into IP addresses so that web users can more easily find Internet sites, has become a battle ground for censorship during the last couple of years. From residing almost exclusively …
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