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.
… the provider of blocklists to PeerBlock, PeerGuardian, Moblock, and other IP-blocking software has been suffering …
… links), rip copyright DVDs and use software such as PeerGuardian were also cited. Even the forum user ranking system didn’t …
… 6gb of RAM. Everything worked fine – until he tried to get PeerGuardian (another IP blocker) to work. Having hacked away and jumped … shut up time,” he told TorrentFreak. Noticing that the PeerGuardian code was open-source but hadn’t been touched for a couple of …
… such as TorrentPrivacy. Blocklist software such as PeerGuardian is often recommended, but it is also highly ineffective as the …
… On a sidenote, file-sharers who use blocklists like PeerGuardian to filter peers of uncertain identity, face the same problem. …
… than many users. They try to circumvent blocklists such as PeerGuardian whenever possible, and change IPs when they are marked. Pirate …
… word on this comes from Phrosty, one of the coders of Peerguardian, who told one of our researchers “PG might help it might not. we …
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