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.
We do not link to actual torrent files for obvious reasons. The data is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. RSS feed for the weekly DVDrip chart. As of October 6, 2007… Ranking …
On the Demonoid frontpage we now read: We received a letter from a lawyer representing the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inc …
Most people who have been exposed to his music would agree, Prince is a truly great artist having written and produced literally hundreds of mostly good tracks. Back in May, Prince announced the “Earth Tour” consisting of many concerts at the very r …
A recent post on the organizers website declares: “The best films are free! Pirate Cinema is an autonomous cinema with P2P-downloaded films. Why should you give your money to big corporations? We are showing the newest movies for free! Pirate Cinema – Ever …
It’s fairly common on the internet to read that people go to jail for sharing files or file-sharing related activities. Some of these comments are made by the uninformed individual or passing writer, others are carefully crafted press releases which are de …
An internal beta version of the extension is available at the RedSwoosh website (whoops! not that internal anymore). This release is semi-functional, but it gives you an impression of what the final version will look like. It currently downloads only one f …
The Russian police denied that it had anything to do with the closure of the trackers, and refused to release any further comments. Vadim Andrianov, one of the BitTorrent tracker admins, thinks that the shutdown of his, and other sites could be part of …
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