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 German Pirate Party won several seats in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election today. For the fourth time in a row the Pirate Party broke the 5% threshold which is needed to enter parliament. According to the latest exit polls the Pirates rec …
Hollywood, software giants and the major music labels see BitTorrent as one of the largest threats to their business. Billions in revenue are lost each year, they claim. But not for long if the Russian based startup “Pirate Pay” has its way. The compan …
The first mainstream filesharing applications like Napster (started in the year 1999) operated completely centralized. Napster relied on a single server to store the files every user shared, provided a central file search, and even initiated file trans …
The Court of The Hague in the Netherlands has been particularly busy this work with Pirate Bay-related cases. Following an earlier court ruling ordering two of the country’s largest ISPs to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay, the Court ordered a …
Two weeks ago we published an opinion piece where we pointed out some unfortunately-phrased comments from MPAA boss Chris Dodd. The former congressman pointed out that the film industry was able to thrive because of intellectual property protections. …
Last year the music storage locker service MP3tunes scored a big win in its lengthy battle against EMI, but it turns out that this landmark victory came too late. Because of the legal costs and growing competition MP3tunes sees no other option than to f …
Last fall, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. By filing a mass-BitTorrent lawsuit the company became one of the many copyright holders who together have sued a quarter million people in the countr …
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