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.
… infringements, either by taking technical measures such as throttling, or terminating accounts. As reported by ARN today, there are … said no matter which steps were taken, be they letters or throttling, AFACT would not be happy unless the measures ultimately ended in …
… a broad range of actions such as sending out letters, throttling customers’ connections, right through to suspending accounts. At …
In March the uTorrent team released the long-awaited version 2.0 of their popular BitTorrent client which introduced several significant changes. One of the novelties in the new uTorrent release was uTP, a new and improved implementation of the BitTorr …
… been developed is to make traffic shaping and BitTorrent throttling by ISPs obsolete. Unfortunately there has not been any feedback from …
… towards the end of this year and “technical measures” (throttling/account suspension) imposed if illicit sharing isn’t reduced by …
… an open letter they are demanding that the disconnections/throttling (aka technical measures) and site-blocking clauses are either …
One of the most significant changes in the new uTorrent is uTP, the ‘micro transfer protocol’. UTP is a new and improved implementation of the BitTorrent protocol which is designed to be more network-friendly than its predecessor. With uTP, uTorrent ha …
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