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.
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 …
Although New Zealand’s Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 doesn’t come officially into force until 1st September, last week saw the beginning of P2P network monitoring which can be backed up by action under the new legislation. As …
Starting in a few months, the copyright police will start to track down ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement with all major U.S. Internet providers. All parties agreed to warn copyright infringers that their behavior is unacceptable. After six warnings the …
Bjork’s latest album Biophilia is only available in software form exclusively for Apple devices. But she believes that with the help of pirates, that situation might soon change. “I’m not supposed to say this, probably,” she told Drowned in Sound, …
As previously reported, UK ISP BT has been facing off against the major Hollywood movie studios in the High Court. The Motion Picture Association wanted an injunction ordering BT to block its subscribers from accessing Newzbin2, a site it claims causes …
While most requests for file-sharing related cash settlements never make the headlines since their recipients simply dig deep and pay up, a minority end up making waves. A situation in Finland is developing into one such case. According to reports a wom …
The Pirate Bay has deleted a LulzSec torrent suspecting it contained a trojan. The torrent “50 Days of Lulz” (cache) was LulzSec’s final release which included a wide variety of data leaks including “AT&T internal data.rar.” In the release notes Lulz …
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