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 Court of The Hague in the Netherlands has been particularly busy this work with Pirate Bay-related cases. Following an earlier court ruling ordering two of the country’s largest ISPs to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay, the Court ordered a …
Last fall, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. By filing a mass-BitTorrent lawsuit the company became one of the many copyright holders who together have sued a quarter million people in the countr …
After the MPA won its blocking case against the Newzbin2 Usenet indexing site last year, it was only a matter of time before similar sites were targeted in the same mannner. Indeed, after a few weeks a conglomerate of music labels filed a lawsuit agains …
Following the raids on Megaupload in January, tens of millions of dollars in assets and funds belonging to the company were seized. Initially a law firm called Sidley Austin LLP had been negotiating on Megaupload’s behalf for the return of such assets a …
For a man who’s the main defendant in one of the biggest criminal cases ever brought in the US, Kim Dotcom is surprisingly composed. The Megaupload founder is convinced of his innocence, and instead of letting fear or anger get to him, he is excited. De …
“By all estimates, Megaupload.com is the largest and most active criminally operated website targeting creative content in the world,” said the MPAA in a statement issued immediately after Mega was shutdown in January. As statements go, they don’t get m …
Schemes which require alleged copyright infringers to pay cash settlements to make lawsuits disappear are nothing new. Those describing these revenue-generating projects often do so using the word ‘scam’, but while the schemes are questionable, in many …
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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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