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 extension is developed by the Silicon Valley based company RedSwoosh, which was recently aquired by Akamai. FoxTorrent integrates BitTorrent downloads with so called “Swoosh links”, and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. p2p-blog did an early review …
The Information Services department of Cardiff University in the UK has notified 25,000 students of its intention to protect the university from a rising tide of copyright infringement notices due to ‘inappropriate use’ of P2P. It will accomplish this by t …
BitTorrent will sell content from Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate, Palm Pictures, and their latest partner MGM. All videos will be high quality, and encoded with the best possible codecs according to BitTorrent …
Whatever faithful Mac/Linux users like me might say, there’s no denying that Windows XP is the most widely used operating system, and it’s only inevitable that Vista will inherit the thrown from its ageing predecessor. Therefore, the most important platfor …
Anton asks: How many percent of those who use TPB to download copyrighted material do you think believe they have the moral right to do so? Gottfrid: We don’t do any polls of the morals of our users, so it’s hard to say. Peter: It’s not very interest …
BitThief is based on the mainline client and Azureus, and is written in Java. The client uses some simple alterations that make it possible to download torrents without uploading. It constantly pretends to be a newly arrived peer that doesn’t have anything …
BitTyrant is based on the Azureus 2.5 code. While inspecting the contents of the application I noticed that even though its icon is different from Azureus’, it is still named “Azureus.icns”. BitTyrant is selfish because it focuses on the optimal speed f …
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