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 indie rock band “The Decemberists” has more faith in BitTorrent than MTV. The band from Portland, Oregon want their video to be available to a wide public, and BitTorrent is the easiest way to do so. Dawn Barger, manager of the Decemberists says …
* Interview with the man behind the BitTorrent Song * A day in the life of a Tv-Torrent geek * New Ipod Torrent Site * Port Washington, another independent movie release on BitTorrent * Click and view, article on BitTorrent and TV …
Michael Geist’s interpretation of a recent study on how downloading affects the music bussiness caused quite some controversy. Geist concluded from the study that filesharing does not hurt the record industry. P2Pnet interviewed Geist, they discuss several …
Unfortunately, Johan Pouwelse, one of the Dutch researchers working on the project at the Delft University was not allowed to comment but here’s summary of the article “Most current P2P file sharing systems treat their users as anonymous, unrelated enti …
This site offers an extensive collection of Classic and B-Movie torrents. The copyright of these movies has expired so you are free to share them. Not much later this story was posted on digg.com, and some of the torrents are getting pretty popular. …
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