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.
In recent months we’ve written dozens of articles on copyright trolls and their mass-lawsuits targeted at BitTorrent users. The aim of these cases is to get suspected copyright infringers to settle for a few thousand dollars, in what we’ve dubbed a …
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 …
While the sharing of music, movies and games is commonplace on the Internet, in recent years availability has extended to books of all kinds. Some of the most sought after publications are those hunted by students since the paper-based textbooks they ar …
The movie industry claims that piracy is costing them billions of dollars a year. Luckily for Hollywood, many Americans choose to consume their online media through legal services such as Netflix. In fact, there are now so many that the total Internet …
The excellent article below comes from ABC Australia and is written by Nick Ross. Well worth the read. When it comes to copyright theft and piracy, many people assume there’s just one side – the side of truth, justice and copyright owners. Beyond that t …
We’ve covered all kinds of anti-piracy stories here on TorrentFreak, but what you are about to read has to rank up there as one of the most unusual. Even now we’re still scratching our heads and rubbing our chins. At the end of May 2011 a leaked copy of …
The following is a guest column by Michael Neumann, philosophy teacher at a Canadian university. The Register’s Andrew Orlowski habitually calls illegal downloaders of music ‘freetards’. But if you’re going to label people tards of any sort, you ought t …
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