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.
The Tribler BitTorrent client is no newcomer to the BitTorrent scene. It has been in development for more than 5 years and has delivered many innovative features, which have mostly been ignored by the masses. Today, however, Tribler is more relevant th …
Last year Linux users were teased with the upcoming release of a uTorrent desktop client. “While the exact specs as well as the timing are still being developed, we expect uTorrent for Linux to be available for download later this summer,” a BitTor …
This is a guest post by TorrentFreak reader Jeroen, in response to the Belgian Pirate Bay blockade. Today, two of Belgium’s biggest operators, Telenet and Belgacom, got a court order to block the website ThePirateBay.org, and about 20 alternative U …
With millions of people using BitTorrent every day, the protocol has been the leading P2P technology from more than half a decade. To gain more insight into BitTorrent’s usage we’ve previously looked at the market share of various BitTorrent clients to …
Following a complaint from the Motion Picture Association, earlier this year a judge at London’s High Court ordered leading UK ISP BT to block subscriber access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2. Although the blocking measures aren’t expected to be put …
Earlier this year, a judge at London’s High Court ordered leading UK ISP BT to block subscriber access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2. Although the block isn’t expected until sometime after mid-October, a breakdown in one of Newzbin2′s DNS servers d …
While millions of people still use BitTorrent every day to download videos, increasingly streaming sites have become more dominant for online entertainment. Nearly every video file available via BitTorrent can also be streamed online somewhere, for a payme …
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