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.
By McSweeney The Recording Industry Association of America has enriched your life through music since you were a baby. But now you betray us? We will destroy you. This is your notice that you will be sued for one of the following: 1. Downloadin …
The popular BitTorrent site Snarf-it.org is down at the moment. Apparently some incompetent people at the datacentre messed up the server. At Snarf-it.org we read this funny coverstory: Where is Snarf-It? Your guess is as good as ours, a …
The main feature that sets Xtorrent apart from its Mac brethren is the ability to search from within the application. BitRocket, also still in beta, is the only other Mac BT client to offer this feature. There are only two search engines included by defaul …
Today, almost two years later, people are still quoting the “one third” statistic. But the question is.. should they? There is no reason to believe that BitTorrent traffic has decreased. On the contrary, today, there are at least 3 popular BitTorrent si …
The long awaited BitTorrent Video store will be launched by the end of this year. The video store will offer full-length and short movies, TV-shows, concerts, and other media. BitTorrent Inc already signed deals with Warner Bros and other movie dist …
Scott admitted to the judge that he was involved in managing to popular “private” BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents.org. He also told the judge that he uploaded copyrighted content more than once, including a copy of “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith”, severa …
If you don’t like torrents try MP3 Search. The site carries in excess of 50,000 albums from 46,000 artists. Prices start at $0.19 per track. Most tracks are in high quality bitrate, 320 kbps. The site accepts major credit cards. uTorrent is currently on …
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