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.
Every single week new lawsuits are filed aimed at discovering the identities of individuals who allegedly share copyright material online without the permission of rightsholders. Most often these lawsuits are filed by porn companies, independent movie s …
This is a guest article from UK rapper Dan Bull. Sharing Is Caring Yesterday a young lad asked me, “Dan Bull in the charts? Is this a ‘fuck off’ to the record industry then?” Good question, I thought. What do I really want to say to the entertainm …
For a man who’s the main defendant in one of the biggest criminal cases ever brought in the US, Kim Dotcom is surprisingly composed. The Megaupload founder is convinced of his innocence, and instead of letting fear or anger get to him, he is excited. De …
The past several months will go down in history as a period Grooveshark and parent company Escape Media would rather forget. In November 2011, Universal Music, the world’s largest recording label, sued the music streaming service in a copyright infringe …
Earlier this month in a case brought by several major recording labels including Sony, EMI and Warner, a judge in the UK’s High Court ruled that The Pirate Bay and its users breach copyright “on a major scale.” This ruling means that it’s almost inevita …
By now readers will be all too familiar with the rhetoric of the mainstream music and movie industries. So-called foreign “rogue sites” steal American content, steal American money, cost American jobs and damage the economy, the lobbyists insist. While …
With prominent members such Bryan Adams, Eddie Schwartz, Randy Bachman and Carole Pope among its ranks, the Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) is the voice of more than 1,500 Canadian artists. In common with many of the groups tied to the music in …
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