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.
As part of “Operation Save Our Children” ICE’s Cyber Crimes Center has again seized several domain names, but not without making a huge error. Last Friday, thousands of site owners were surprised by a rather worrying banner that was placed on their doma …
Following a review of all outstanding active ACS:Law cases, last month Judge Birss QC found that a total of 27 had been filed, many of them displaying what he described as “unusual features”. In order to decide how to progress these cases he ordered a …
For the last few weeks Japan’s Anti-Counterfeiting Association (ACA) has been busy monitoring the country’s file-sharers looking for copyright infringers. After handing over their findings to the authorities, this week the police took action. In an oper …
Every year Google and other search engines produce a year’s end list of the most searched for phrases and keywords. Chatroulette and iPad were the fastest rising searches on Google and Kim Kardashian and Sandra Bullock were the top searches on Bing. Bit …
This was a strange week. Three of the ‘new’ movies that entered the list this week are all older releases. This sometimes happens because of a tracker error, but we couldn’t find an obvious one this time (perhaps a thanksgiving effect?). That said, it feel …
BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the Mainline client and uTorrent, celebrated the big roll-out of the Apps platform at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco yesterday. One of the attendees was BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen. Cohen co-founded th …
This week there are four newcomers in the list. Iron Man 2 is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent for the second week in a row. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference o …
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