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 excellent article below comes from ABC Australia and is written by Nick Ross. Well worth the read. When it comes to copyright theft and piracy, many people assume there’s just one side – the side of truth, justice and copyright owners. Beyond that t …
To those who are not that tech-savvy, file-sharing applications that share all files by default can pose a threat. This is one of the main reasons why the FTC filed a complaint against FrostWire at a federal court. The government agency, which aims to …
We’ve covered all kinds of anti-piracy stories here on TorrentFreak, but what you are about to read has to rank up there as one of the most unusual. Even now we’re still scratching our heads and rubbing our chins. At the end of May 2011 a leaked copy of …
Last week the MPAA-supported lobby group AFACT released a study claiming that 72 percent of people would stop downloading infringing content if their Internet provider warned them. The results claimed to support the effectiveness of a 3-strikes system …
With a claimed 400,000 registered users, MovieX.info was one of the largest semi-private BitTorrent trackers on the Internet in 2008. Although the site’s operations were frowned upon by a part of the BitTorrent community, its members saw MovieX as their …
Early 2011 game developers Alex Nichiporchik and Tom Brien announced that their newly founded company tinyBuild was working on the release of No Time To Explain, a flash-based platform game. Based on the trailers alone the game got raging reviews from …
The Internet is the largest copying machine ever invented, and if we take a look at the massive amounts of traffic file-sharing sites get, millions of people are using it to its full extent. 4shared, the largest English language file-sharing site, is s …
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