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.
Congratulations to the MPAA, their new boss Chris Dodd took office a few days ago. The 66-year old former Democratic senator, who ran for President in 2008, will surely revitalize the tune of one of the best known anti-piracy outfits. The CEO and Chair …
In September 2010, the Mulve music download tool reached the peak of its popularity. Pulling on the resources of VKontakte – Russia’s Facebook equivalent – it provided instant access to millions of high quality tracks from just about every artist imaginabl …
In the fall of 2002, just months after Bram Cohen released his first version of BitTorrent to the public, a new website called Suprnova.org was born. Founded by Andrej Preston, a Slovenian teenager better known as Sloncek, the site quickly gathered momentu …
The purpose of this article is not to try and convince anyone that I’m some kind of Justin Bieber guru, but from what I’ve been hearing during the last couple of years, she’s pretty good looking and has millions of adoring fans. That’s got to be a good sta …
The battle against ACS:Law, MediaCAT and other companies previously involved in developing the so-called Speculative Invoicing model in the UK, has been fought on many fronts. A key group that has championed the rights of the innocent caught in the dragnet …
Starting mid-September, dozens of anti-piracy groups, copyright lawyers and pro-copyright outfits have been targeted by a group of Anonymous Internet ‘vigilantes’ under the flag of Operation Payback. The operation started initially as ‘payback’ agai …
Educating the most easily influenced members of society is what our world is built upon, so it comes as little surprise that when planning for the future, guiding the youth in a particular direction is a useful strategy. Over the last few years, in an a …
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