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.
Recently, TorrentFreak published a translation of an interview between a journalist and a member of the German warez Scene. Although the article was well received, it generated quite a lot of controversy. Some readers felt that the questions should’ve …
A post by brokep on the Pirate Bay blog reveals that the site has had some unwanted visitors and not very pleasant ones at that. These people, whose identities have already been discovered by TPB crew, exploited a vulnerability in the site’s blogging s …
With an estimated one million people downloading aXXo rips every month, aXXo is very popular with BitTorrent fans all over the world. But as is so often the case, fame comes at a price and it’s almost inevitable that people will jump onto the back of oth …
Sounds great, but let me start off with the downside to Usenet. The biggest disadvantage is that high speed Usenet servers are not free. You need at least some kind of paid subscription plan to be able to get decent speeds on Usenet. For some people this i …
In preparing this piece, I spoke to several private site admins, and a few public tracker admins as well. The results may surprise you. There are three main areas of concern, that the server may get seized, or that an anti-p2p agent may infiltrate the …
When you visit the BitRoll site (better left unlinked), after a few seconds, it automatically redirects you to the download page. The download page is filled with fake positive remarks about the client. It also claims that BitRoll has been “rated as the mo …
The Firefox extension for uTorrent allows you to drag and drop .torrent links onto the WebUI window and shows the current upload and download speed in the status bar. The upload and download speed remains visible if you close the WebUI screen. The exten …
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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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