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.
One thing you learn very quickly when dealing with politics is that it’s on another timescale than the rest of our work. We are used to hacking up a solution to a problem in a 24-hour coding session or a weekend. The time between elections, four or five ye …
In recent years Google and YouTube have gone to extremes to protect copyright holders. Perhaps the greatest achievement thus far is their state-of-the-art Content-ID system. Content-ID allows rightsholders to upload the videos and music they own to a c …
In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. In the years that followed the BitTorrent site made history as it grew to become one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. …
Can an IP-address be a criminal? Not according to District Court Judge Harold Baker, who ruled against a copyright holder in one of the many mass-BitTorrent lawsuits earlier this year. “The infringer might be the subscriber, someone in the subscri …
The UK Digital Economy Act, like it or loathe it, has been surrounded by an odour from the beginning, and the stench is getting ever more vile. The Act was pushed through by Lord Mandelson, then Secretary of State (SoS) for Business, reportedly after v …
Spoiled by the militant style of The Pirate Bay founders, who raised their middle fingers at some of the most powerful corporate and governmental organizations in the world, many in the file-sharing community feel that utter defiance is the only approach t …
Italy is no stranger to censoring sites deemed offensive by the entertainment industries. In the summer of 2008 The Pirate Bay was blocked nationwide following a court order, a decision the site successfully appealed at the The Court of Bergamo. That vi …
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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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