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.
Okay, this isn’t exactly news, but worth mentioning nonetheless. In recent years we’ve debunked dozens of flawed statistics that are spread by the copyright lobby. In an excellent TED talk comic author Rob Reid looks addresses the very same issue wi …
… & HDTVs that can playback H264 and AAC encapsulated in MP4,” the doc adds. From February 22nd and earlier in some cases, … in the new format. Out went Xvid and avi, in came x264 and MP4. However, while the release groups want to move with the times, there …
… video files are also automatically encoded into flash and MP4 format a few minutes after the download has finished. This means that the …
This week there are four newcomers. Season of the Witch is the most downloaded movie of the week. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list ar …
… on the basis that everybody’s work—including MP4’s—should be free.” Michael Connarty MP. Rick Falkvinge was quick to …
… a multitude of formats including Xvid, DivX, AVI, H.264, MP4, MP2, RMVB, WMV, MP4, MKV, JPEG, BMP and PNG. Audio formats are also supported including FLAC, …
First up today was Kristoffer Schollin who spoke via telephone from Gothenburg University. He explained he is a lecturer in IT law with a particular interest in file-sharing and has written a paper on Digital Rights Management (DRM). He has also made a spe …
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