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.
This move is part of a “continuing effort to work with the software industry” and will most probably lead to the company signing deals with other software vendors. As usual, the Adobe products will only be filtered out if the user has chosen to block co …
Limewire is not aiming to be the most sophisticated BitTorrent client, they just want to provide an extra service to the existing Limewire users. There is not a lot of info on the torrents while you are downloading. No tracker info, no seeds/peer ratio, on …
The MPAA has set up a program that is meant to imprint the MPAA’s one-sided view on copyrights on these youngsters. It is a cheap way for the MPAA to train some anti-piracy lobbyists. As MPAA CEO Dan Glickman puts it: One of the most important to …
Windows Vista has a brand new Network Stack. According to tests conducted on both Windows XP and Vista, the new stack might actually speed up BitTorrent transfers by an estimated 10%. We’ve been hearing a lot about how Windows Vista has a brand new …
If you don’t like torrents try MP3 Search. The site carries in excess of 50,000 albums from 46,000 artists. Prices start at $0.19 per track. Most tracks are in high quality bitrate, 320 kbps. The site accepts major credit cards. uTorrent is currently on …
Unfortunately there’s no data of the downloading behavior of non-Americans. It is likely that these figures are even higher outside the US, where the popular TV-shows debut months after they first aired in the US. Younger Americans are driving growth in …
Mac OS X is heralded as the most appealing operating system on the market and one of the most capable as well thanks to its BSD (Unix) core. Sadly, the number of user-friendly, appealing BitTorrent clients available for the platform are very few in compar …
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