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.
ShareMonkey is developed by Leadbullet, a peer to peer startup company that aims is to provide an easy mechanism for people to legitimately purchase their pirated warez. ShareMonkey is a freeware application, and it comes with a plugin that integrates …
Salvador Nunez Jr. has a special sister. As a member of The International Animated Film Society and an Oscars voter, she is one of the privileged few who gain access to the latest movies far in advance of the general public. For members of ‘The Scene’ …
So, here’s Cuban’s argument. He believes that from the business standpoint, BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer technologies are great. They save massive amounts of bandwidth and help efficiently distribute large media files, possibly even speeding up transf …
Two facts: Album sales are declining. 75% of all artists profit from filesharing. We will try to explain these two seemingly contradicting facts, and list three factors that may help us understand what’s going on… Artists sell more album …
Asia is associated with piracy. This association isn’t off the mark. People here use P2P networks to download copyrighted music (among other things), and having bootleg software on one’s computer is a completely normal thing. The idea of paying $100 for an …
Copyrighted books are distributed over BitTorrent just like copyrighted music, movies, TV shows et al. Book downloads can be found in two forms; audiobooks and PDFs. We aren’t going to talk about publishing houses suing file-sharers. The real culprits are …
This week’s most popular movie downloads on BitTorrent. Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers 1 (4) Open Season 49,054 2 (1) Jackass 2 48,097 3 (-) The Departed 48,079 …
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