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.
During May the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) and the Finnish branch of IFPI announced that they had filed a lawsuit at the District Court in Helsinki. The latest in a growing line of lawsuits against service providers worldwide, t …
For many Android users Transdroid is the perfect remote access app for managing their BitTorrent clients on the go. The app allows users to start and stop torrents, search torrent files and even use the barcode scanner to find matching torrent files. Tr …
“Anonymous” just released the third and final part of Zenith on VODO, another film project that’s available for free on BitTorrent. Embracing BitTorrent has resulted in a dazzling 1,275,891 download of Zenith thus far, something most indie filmmakers ca …
American sci-fi Walter Jon Williams is determined to bring enjoyment and availability of his books to the digital domain. “Like every other midlist writer on the planet, I’m striving to get my out-of-print books and stories online so that (a) you can …
Today, one of the UK’s leading Internet service providers unveiled a new system it believes will enhance the safety of families online. HomeSafe from TalkTalk is a network-level blocklist product which offers three key features. Firstly it offers ‘Virus …
As every decade passes it seems that the job market becomes ever more competitive. In these tough economic times a quick scan of the local papers reveals fewer column inches dedicated to those offering employment. This increasing scarcity is compounded by …
In late March or very early April 2010, a fairly unusual and in parts quite ingenious piece of malware started circulating. After a Windows user was infected with a file – iqmanager.exe in a sub-directory of /documents and settings – the badware went to wo …
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