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.
Piracy presents content creators with a mind-twisting dilemma. No one wants to see the work they have to live off being copied for free, but in today’s age not being pirated is probably even worse. Being overlooked in this way generally means that the pub …
Yesterday TorrentFreak received several emails from worried Comcast subscribers who could no longer load their favorite BitTorrent site, The Pirate Bay. A quick look at our web-analytics further revealed a bump in people searching Google for “thepirateb …
May last year the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt. The injunction is the result of isoHunt’s protracted court battle with the MPAA that started back in 2006. The Court ordered th …
In the last year various copyright holders have sued well over 100,000 alleged file-sharers in the United States alone. The purpose of these lawsuits is to obtain the personal details of the alleged infringers, and use this information to negotiate a settl …
While most readers will be very familiar with the commercialized mainstream pop sounds of the last 10 to 20 years, spare a moment’s thought for the deep history of our modern music. Without the great composers of the last few hundred years – Mozart, Beetho …
BTjunkie will be “censored” in Italy following an order from the public prosecutor of the Sardinian capital Cagliari. Both the IP addresses of the site and its domain name will soon be made inaccessible by all Italian ISPs, blocking users’ access to th …
It’s long been a tradition with politicians and lawyers alike, that the code of law establishes a somewhat vague direction with plenty of internal leeway, with the courts then hammering out the details in case-law. However, with monopoly laws, this creates …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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