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.
In 2003, former University of Tokyo and Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute researcher Isamu Kaneko released a new piece of software online. Inspired by the principles behind the Freenet network, the Winny application attempted to make its users anon …
Last week we wrote about a new website that exposes what people behind an IP-address have downloaded using BitTorrent. The Russian-based founders of the site gathered this data from public BitTorrent trackers, much like anti-piracy outfits do when they tra …
The keynote in question shows how the copyright monopoly is fundamentally incompatible with horizontal unmonitored digital communication, and therefore, with the Internet and private communications as very concepts. I outlined in 2007 how we could expe …
Stand-up comedian Louis C.K is selling a direct download of his show at the Beacon Theater for 5 dollars. No DRM, no forced email spam, no expensive middle-man – just value for value. That’s how easy and convenient video distribution can be nowadays …
The past 100 years have seen a vast array of technical advances in broadcasting, multiplication and transmissions of culture, but equally much misguided legislators who sought to preserve the old at expense of the new, just because the old was complaining. …
For those who spend long hours on the Internet it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that’s where all the important things happen, that ‘AFK’ or ‘real-life’ is just a distraction. But real-life events earlier this year involving the administrator …
Last week we reported that the Italian cybercrime police shut down several file-sharing websites. The sites, which were connected by ownership, offered links to torrents and files hosted on cyberlockers. However, the actions were not without collate …
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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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Privacy is important on the Internet, and BitTorrent users are certainly not excluded. Already, hundreds of...
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BitTorrent can be fun, as long as you get decent speeds. Not satisfied with your current...