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.
As reported by TorrentFreak in March 2010, Golden Eye (International) Ltd, a company connected with the Ben Dover porn brand in the UK and one that had already been pursuing alleged file-sharers in Germany, decided to import their file-sharing settlement s …
Yesterday, PaidContent published a report on Digital Rights Corp, an LA-based firm who monitor file-sharing networks for infringements and contact alleged pirates asking for money. It’s 2011, what’s new? However, rather than asking for around $3,000 lik …
In April, The Pirate Bay renamed itself to The Research Bay to conduct the largest ever survey among file-sharers together with the Cybernorms research group at Lund University. The Cybernorms group researches how the Internet creates new social norms i …
Just under a week ago we reported that mass-lawsuits targeting BitTorrent users had migrated from the United States to Canada. Having met resistance on home soil, the makers of The Hurt Locker are now sending out letters to Canadian Internet users sayin …
Texas lawyer Evan Stone is one of the more colorful characters in the U.S. file-sharing settlement sphere. The self-described programmer, filmmaker and musician, who when speaking of his pirate-chasing lifestyle says “I was born to do this shit,” is …
Early 2011 game developers Alex Nichiporchik and Tom Brien announced that their newly founded company tinyBuild was working on the release of No Time To Explain, a flash-based platform game. Based on the trailers alone the game got raging reviews from …
As predicted, On The Cheap, LLC vs Does 1-5011 is proving to be a must-read case for anyone interested in mass anti-filesharing lawsuits in the United States. The case is one of the porn-based BitTorrent lawsuits filed in 2010 by Ira M. Siegel using evi …
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