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.
There are a lot of newcomers in this week’s list, 7 in total. Despite all the efforts from the movie industry to prevent “Australia” from being cammed in theaters, it was an insider who got it out in DVD quality. The data for our weekly download cha …
‘Resident Evil: Degeneration’, or ‘Biohazard: Degeneration’ as it’s known in Japan, will never become a blockbuster film, simply because it is only set for release in a few movie theaters. On the Internet, however, its popularity exceeds all expectations. …
As we reported earlier, The Dark Knight is on its way to become the most pirated movie of 2008, crushing Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Transformers. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and e …
Recently we wrote about the exchange of emails between vocalist Indiana Gregg and Peter Sunde at The Pirate Bay. Indiana and her label asked Peter to remove some torrents but he refused, instead publishing the details of their correspondence in the site’s …
The public needs to understand that piracy is killing the adult industry, Jeremy said: “What harms the industry is the Internet. Before it was helpful. Every company had its own website. Now you have things like YouPorn and PornTube that show full-length f …
One of the world’s largest adult film creators, Vivid Entertainment Group, has had enough of free porn site, PornoTube.com and is taking legal action against it. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the lawsuit against P …
Here at TorrentFreak we’ve mentioned the American and Swedish Pirate Parties before, but they’re not the only ones. Germany probably has one of the most active Pirate Parties, we had the chance to interview Jan Huwald, the party’s political leader and a re …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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