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.
Here at TorrentFreak we’ve mentioned the American and Swedish Pirate Parties before, but they’re not the only ones. Germany probably has one of the most active Pirate Parties, we had the chance to interview Jan Huwald, the party’s political leader and a re …
Piracy is becoming a serious problem for the adult industry. It is estimated that 5% of all files being shared on public BitTorrent trackers are adult content, and most of these files are copyrighted. On top of that, sites such as Empornium, PureTnA and Ch …
Pirate Bay admin Brokep identified some of the key players conspiring against the popular BitTorrent tracker. First of all the Swedish anti-piracy lobby groups. They stated at an official meeting in Stockholm that child porn could be used for anti-pirac …
Drugs Are Like That (1979) This film tries to simplify its drug abuse message with an analogy of kids putting together a contraption out of Lego blocks. Although the metaphors often don’t make sense, the visual impact of the film is stunning and could e …
Anton asks: How many percent of those who use TPB to download copyrighted material do you think believe they have the moral right to do so? Gottfrid: We don’t do any polls of the morals of our users, so it’s hard to say. Peter: It’s not very interest …
TorrentFreak: When did you first learn about BitTorrent? Niek: I guess that was somewhere back in 2003. Rob, one of the other Mininova staff members, pointed me to a new kind of P2P protocol, named BitTorrent, and soon thereafter I became a regular …
The P2P traffic analysis was conducted by Ipoque, and looked into the latest filesharing trends in Germany. The popularity of BitTorrent in Germany is surprising because eDonkey has been the preferred method to share files for years, and accounted for 75% …
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