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.
Talking at a copyright conference in New York last Friday, Paramount Pictures’ Alfred Perry said that Megaupload is just the first of many cyberlocker services Hollywood wants to be gone. The exec identified Fileserve, MediaFire, Wupload, Putlocker an …
In January, a Dutch court ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the country, and competitor XS4ALL, must block access to The Pirate Bay. Both ISPs appealed the verdict, but in the meantime affected subscribers have plenty of ways to route around the blo …
Starting this summer, the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will start to track down ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement with all major U.S. Internet providers. Last year the parties agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are warne …
In the wake of the MegaUpload shutdown many of the site’s users complained that their personal files had been lost due to collateral damage. Behind the scenes Megaupload has been negotiating with the Department of Justice to allow these users to tempo …
According to a VG247 report, some of the specifications for the next generation Xbox have been released by Microsoft to certain partners. The machine, currently favored to be called Xbox 720, is penciled in for Christmas 2013 release and will come fitt …
As can be seen from the screenshot below, the people at the forward-looking Oxford Dictionaries have acknowledged the existence of BitTorrent for some time. Others, such as the famous Britannica-owned Merriam-Webster, have been slower to react. The …
The file-hosting business has been in a permanent state of chaos since the Megaupload shutdown in January. Many sites were quick to remove their affiliate programs and some went as far as blocking visitors from the US entirely. It’s clear that site ow …
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