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.
Ever since uTorrent was first released back in 2005, Mac and Linux users have been begging the developers to code a version compatible with their computers. In 2006, when uTorrent was sold to BitTorrent Inc., the company promised that a Mac version was com …
With an increasing number of BitTorrent users seeking solutions to hide their identities from the outside world, privacy services have seen a spike in customers recently. Below we’ve listed some of the most-used services that allow BitTorrent users to hide …
uTorrent is one of the most widely used pieces of BitTorrent software and is the client of choice for more than 50 million users worldwide. In May, BitTorrent Inc. introduced its Idea Bank section, which allows uTorrent users to submit and vote for feat …
In the fall of 2002, just months after Bram Cohen released his first version of BitTorrent to the public, a new website called Suprnova.org was born. Before The Pirate Bay, Torrentz and isoHunt started linking to torrent files, Suprnova was already serv …
Every so often a new study surfaces that attempts to describe the BitTorrent landscape. Yesterday a study by the Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL) was publicized (pdf) and the researchers found that only 0.3% of all torrents were confirmed legal …
Large scale web-services such as Twitter need thousands of servers to manage the flow of updates sent out by their millions of users. As a result, keeping all these servers updated with the latest data can be time and resource intensive. To improve the dep …
Transmission saw its first public release nearly five years ago. Since then the free, multi-platform application has gathered a steady user-base of millions of users. Transmission became the default BitTorrent client on various Linux distributions incl …
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