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.
When asked by Michael Calore of Wired News if the content on the new video store would contain DRM and if it would be cross-platform compatible, Cohen said, “we’re rolling out with some content DRM’d, using Windows DRM.” By this he also made it clear that …
What the heck is RSS? For those who are not familiar with the term, RSS is an acronym that stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. It allows you to keep up-to-date on content from sites you are interested in. Most news sites, blogs and podcasts have RSS …
A week ago several respectable sources including Digg and Slashdot reported that Btjunkie is the largest BitTorrent search site on the web. But both the methodology and the legitimacy of the source are doubtful. The sites refer to this article, tha …
Online media distribution is hot. With the success of services like Amazon unbox and the iTunes Store, BitTorrent Inc can’t stay behind. So, within a couple of months BitTorrent will launch a video download store as well. And this is just the beginning. …
Setting up a portable uTorrent is easy. 1. Download the latest standalone version, and copy it onto your datastick. 2. Create an empty datafile with notepad or any other text editor, and name it settings.dat 3. Place the settings.dat file in the …
“Torrent Raiders players use their Torrent Raider ship, equipped with an array of dazzling projectile weaponry, to search and destroy virtual violators in the torrent swarm” Ownage. Torrent Raiders is an arcade-style video game and a dynamic network …
BitTorrent inc. is developing a video download website to distribute movies online. They are still negotiating with several movie studio’s, but today they selected GNi to “host” their online Video Store. GNi signed an agreement with BitTorrent Inc., …
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