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.
These days it’s a rare week if news of some insane overreaction to illegal file-sharing isn’t being reported in the media. We’ve seen some of the worst examples – the multi-million dollar fines, the jail sentences, PROTECTIP, SOPA, right through to the …
Yes, the intro to this article is fiction, but it could easily become reality if some U.S. lawmakers have their way. In March, the White House published a white paper with several recommendations on how to make copyright law compliant with the digital a …
Hollywood goes to extremes to protect its interests worldwide. By now it’s public knowledge that MPAA-funded groups are lobbying at the highest political levels, but when it comes to law enforcement they have their ways of being heard too. In the U.S. …
In March 2011, the IT department of a Swedish school discovered Hollywood movies on a student’s hard drive. The 15-year-old schoolboy had obtained them from two torrent sites. Rather than deal with the issue internally, the school’s head teacher escalat …
In March 2011 the IT department of a Gothenburg school investigated the issue of a virus which apparently came from a student’s computer. During a closer examination IT staff found that the student had 24 Hollywood movies stored on his hard drive. The 1 …
They would cut up large blocks of ice from the frozen lakes in the winter, store them on sawdust in huge barns, cut the blocks into smaller chunks and sell it in the streets. People would buy the ice and keep it with food in special cupboards, so the food …
I remember the first time a proposed law in Sweden said that people should be cut off from the Internet and sent into social exile for unauthorized copying. It was a proposal written by Cecilia Renfors in close cooperation with the copyright industry. “ …
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