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 “safe harbor” provisions basically mean that the only way for an intermediary to avoid liability is to immediately surrender the end-user to the suppressing industries. But it was never in the business interests of net services to safeguard free spee …
Two weeks ago we first reported that game company CD Projekt, the makers of The Witcher 2, are chasing down alleged file-sharers in Germany. The company urges those who are caught to pay a settlement fee, or face an even higher fine. This is an intere …
Throughout the often hectic decade-long rise of mainstream file-sharing,many great characters have come to the forefront. There can be few digital news-consuming netizens to whom the founders of The Pirate Bay are complete strangers, and for those with a p …
File-hosting service Megaupload sued Universal on Monday claiming that the label had sabotaged its viral advertising campaign. The Hong Kong-based company said that Universal wrongfully claimed copyright over the Mega Song, a promotional track commissioned …
The keynote in question shows how the copyright monopoly is fundamentally incompatible with horizontal unmonitored digital communication, and therefore, with the Internet and private communications as very concepts. I outlined in 2007 how we could expe …
By now readers will be all too familiar with the rhetoric of the mainstream music and movie industries. So-called foreign “rogue sites” steal American content, steal American money, cost American jobs and damage the economy, the lobbyists insist. While …
In May, game company CD Projekt released the Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, without DRM. Initially the retail version was bundled with some nasty rights management software, but after the threat of a pre-release leak was gone, CD Projekt issued a patch to …
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