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.
Found at The Piratebay Why RAR archives do not belong in torrents It has become a common practise to create torrents which contain umpteen RAR files, often in the form of a Release from The Scene, instead of simply directly adding the actual …
Although I’m familiar with the watermarks that are put in DVD’s, I never realized that theater releases are marked as well (see picture for the “dot pattern”). However, sometimes release groups find a way to remove these watermarks. An example can be f …
The program consists of a total of 15 pages, and should be the most concrete and factual of the programs presented by parties running in the elections. After The raid on the popular BitTorrent tracker “The Piratebay”, the Pirate Party has transformed in …
The Pirate Bay claims to have uncovered more dirt from behind the scenes in the controversial raid against PRQ and The Pirate Bay in May. They write on their blog that they have gotten hold of inside information from the MPA, including confidential …
Convert? Or be shut down for eventual transmogrification? The commercial p2p scene is beginning to look like a Borg movie with former independent commercial p2p operators being sucked into the corporate maw one by one, to reappear as rigidly controlled mut …
Tip: Want to download Torrents anonymously? Try TorrentPrivacy, the only way to download torrents securely. Smirnov comments on Relakks at the US Pirate Party site” First, both the Relakks site and the announcement make it very clear that the ser …
First of all, the attack against the Pirate Bay was highly unsuccessful – they only stayed down for a couple of days before they were back in full force. Stronger than ever thanks to the widespread media attention. Subsequently several sources reported tha …
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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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