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. …
Mid-2010, nine sites connected to movie streaming were targeted by the U.S. government. They included NinjaVideo.net, at the time one of the Internet’s most prominent video streaming sites. This ‘first round’ in the ongoing “Operation in Our Sites …
In mid-April, Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG) member Wes DeSoto had his premises raided on suspicion of uploading several pre-release movies to the Internet. As Google’s cache at the time revealed, DeSoto uploaded torrents to The Pirate Bay including The K …
This is a follow up to our previous debate on open-WiFi and liability, written for TorrentFreak by the California based attorney Nicholas Ranallo — As some of you may recall, Mr. Randazza and I recently wrote competing viewpoints on the extent of …
The UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have just released their annual IP crime report. The document concentrates mainly on physical counterfeit products but also lists events concerning file-sharing and the activities of the IFPI, BPI and …
For New Zealand-based Internet users, today is the big day. Although the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act 2011 doesn’t come into force until 1st September, infringements can be back-dated for 21 days so pirates on P2P networks are probably …
The relationship between technology and law is a difficult one. Law attempts to put rigid walls around society, to define can and cannot. Technology, on the other hand, attempts to turn cannot into can. Making it even harder is the reality that laws ten …
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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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