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.
While the dozens of mass-lawsuits against BitTorrent users move through the U.S. courts, there’s been very interesting development in one of Digiprotect cases. Like many others, ‘copyright troll’ Digiprotect include many defendants in their lawsuits tha …
In recent months we’ve written dozens of articles on copyright trolls and BitTorrent mass lawsuits, but we’ve heard little from the people who orchestrate these witch hunts. Thanks to an interview arranged by Patrick Michels of the Dallas Observer we a …
It’s common knowledge that the big studios such as Warner, Fox, Universal, Disney, Sony, and Paramount make huge sums from the box office, rental and home markets, but how much money do they make from TV licensing? “In 2010, according to sources at Time …
“Plaintiffs’ (the Studios) Complaint alleges that Hotfile, a web-hosting service, and Mr Titov in his capacity as the ‘guiding spirit’ of Hotfile, are liable for direct and indirect copyright infringement,” begins Hotfile in its recently filed motion to di …
In common with many in his line of work, Jack Francis, a New York-based investigator with the RIAA, says that music from pirate sources is causing a huge problem for the industry. Unofficial sources are cutting up the market with cheap prices, says Francis …
In 2010, adult movie company Larry Flynt Productions embarked on a project to extract hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements from alleged BitTorrent pirates. In October, through lawyer Evan Stone, the company filed several lawsuits which sought th …
These are rough times for isoHunt, one of the largest BitTorrent search engines on the Internet. After losing a long standing legal battle against the US movie industry a few months ago, isoHunt is now up against 26 major record labels in its home country …
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