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.
This is a guest post by TorrentFreak reader Jeroen, in response to the Belgian Pirate Bay blockade. Today, two of Belgium’s biggest operators, Telenet and Belgacom, got a court order to block the website ThePirateBay.org, and about 20 alternative U …
Earlier today, the websites of BitTorrent Inc. (utorrent.com and bittorrent.com) were hacked. In what would seem (but isn’t) to be a vindication of the many ‘studies’ equating P2P with malware, downloads of the torrent clients µTorrent and BitTorrent …
Until recently PHP.net, the home of the world-famous PHP scripting language, had a pretty dark secret – a secret stash of pirate movies, music and software. According to a report from SEO Whistlerblower Stephen Chapman, not only did an unsecure director …
Earlier today we already wrote about the lawsuit that The Hurt Locker makers filed against 24,583 alleged BitTorrent users. As it turns out they sued a dead person, which could be an indication that the defendant didn’t download anything at all. But …
Can an IP-address be a criminal? Not according to District Court Judge Harold Baker, who ruled against a copyright holder in one of the many mass-BitTorrent lawsuits earlier this year. “The infringer might be the subscriber, someone in the subscri …
Governments all over the world, and in the so-called Free West in particular, look like confused sheep. They are applauding the net activists who are helping people communicate unhindered to get news out from repressive regimes, and at the same time arrest …
As detailed in our earlier reports, anti-piracy company Trident Media Guard (TMG) recently failed to secure some of their systems. Blogger and security researcher Olivier Laurelli, aka Bluetouff, originally reported the breach which included a wide open vi …
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