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.
Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent predicts a backlash against Apple’s ‘locked-in’ ecosystem in the next three years. Navin told Jemina Kiss at the Mipcom festival: “Apple is a phenomenal company – we’ve hired engineers fro …
This disturbs me. Apparently piracy funds organized crime and terrorism. We got to stop this because eh.. Cool is Copyright! The pirates are out to get you… Don’t let them brand you with their mark. Piracy funds organized crime and will de …
Zinoku offers an extensive collection of Magazines. The site lists magazines covering all kinds of topics, including Science, Maxim, FHM, PC Magazine, Newsweek, Penthouse and Playboy It’s not really a big surprise, but as expected, the adult themed …
BitTorrent Inc. is opening it’s online media store within a couple of months. Although they will use DRM (digital rights management) in the early stages, they predict that add supported content will eventually win from DRM, not only in BitTorrent’s store …
By McSweeney The Recording Industry Association of America has enriched your life through music since you were a baby. But now you betray us? We will destroy you. This is your notice that you will be sued for one of the following: 1. Downloadin …
eDonkey has finally and unarguably lined up with other former independent commercial p2p companies which are now working with the RIAA. As we write this, “The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available,” says the site. If you steal music or …
Setting up a portable uTorrent is easy. 1. Download the latest standalone version, and copy it onto your datastick. 2. Create an empty datafile with notepad or any other text editor, and name it settings.dat 3. Place the settings.dat file in the …
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