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.
Recently, TorrentFreak published a translation of an interview between a journalist and a member of the German warez Scene. Although the article was well received, it generated quite a lot of controversy. Some readers felt that the questions should’ve …
Two weeks from now the BitTorrent entertainment network will expand their soft-porn section with videos from Mantra Films. Mantra Films produces the well known “Girls Gone Wild” videos, and the less known “Guys Gone Wild” series. The concept “Girls Gon …
I haven’t been able to test the BitTorrent Entertainment Network myself since I don’t live in the US, but several people told me that there are some serious issues with their DRM. P2PBlog did review the BitTorrent store and comes to the same conclusion …
The idea here is to give an overview of anti-p2p activity. This is by no means an exhaustive report but the aim is to give a summary of some of the companies developing a new industry – one dedicated to disrupting the activities of file-sharers. Founded …
Once you point Hey!Watch in the direction of a YouTube video you want to download, it will get it, encode it in a format of your choice, and act as a super seeder for the first 12 hours, after which, the user and anyone else who has downloaded the video, c …
So, here’s Cuban’s argument. He believes that from the business standpoint, BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer technologies are great. They save massive amounts of bandwidth and help efficiently distribute large media files, possibly even speeding up transf …
Until recently, Internet usage has been a one-way street. People accessed web pages and downloaded pictures, music and videos. The need to upload significant amounts of data was limited to e-mail attachments and files sent over IM. This has all changed. …
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