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.
Hollywood goes to extremes to protect its interests worldwide. By now it’s public knowledge that MPAA-funded groups are lobbying at the highest political levels, but when it comes to law enforcement they have their ways of being heard too. In the U.S. …
For an old-timer like me, 15 years-old is a distant dream of a growing interest in the opposite sex but too much homework to do anything about it, a developing adult mind restricted by loving parents who prefer to keep a child, and a general desire to be o …
In order to better understand the position of this teenager and the craziness of today’s society, I’m reading this news through my memory of what it was like to be 14 again. School, friends, acne, the opposite sex – and computers, I loved them, in all thei …
To Whom It May Concern at the CRIA: I have been an avid music collector for many years, and have approximately 1000 CD’s in my collection, not counting albums that I have purchased over the internet and own only digital copies of. I purchase approximate …
Drugs Are Like That (1979) This film tries to simplify its drug abuse message with an analogy of kids putting together a contraption out of Lego blocks. Although the metaphors often don’t make sense, the visual impact of the film is stunning and could e …
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