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.
Ever since the early days of peer-to-peer file-sharing clients, unscrupulous companies have tried to trade on the naivety of Internet users just beginning to engage with the P2P world. For more than a decade the mode of operation employed by these compa …
… users in general are becoming more wise to the general scams, cons and rip-offs of the online world. These evils take many forms, …
… the multi-million dollar business of P2P-scammers. For more than a decade all sorts of shady companies have been … off novice file-sharers by tricking them into downloading scam products. Their sites appear to offer downloads for software such as … program on users’ computers. There are even scam outfits that do both. Talking to TorrentFreak, FrostWire’s Angel …
… revenue-generating projects often do so using the word ‘scam‘, but while the schemes are questionable, in many cases the companies … the past couple of days a pair of cast-iron scams have been targeting file-sharers, one mimicking the model used by … site for infringing purposes, the documents supporting the scam claim to be from legitimate-sounding German lawfirm “Dr. Kroner & …
… 29th their SMTP server had been accessed via a phishing scam and the intruder went on “to report legitimate content as piracy, using …
… after MegaUpload was taken down by the feds the first scammy replacements start to surface. Tens of thousands of people are … to these sites, or open yourself up to a phishing scam. Sure, there are plenty of alternatives to MegaUpload, but MegaUpload …
… Winning CEO - MegaUpload Back? Don’t Be Fooled by Scammers - I Want my Personal Files Back!! - MegaUpload Hires Former Bill …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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