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.
Even after taking in the details of today’s 3Newz report several times, it is harder than ever to comprehend what happened at the Dotcom mansion last month. We knew that dozens of police swooped on the location in helicopters and we knew they were armed …
Rogers, one of Canada’s largest Internet providers, has been slowing down BitTorrent traffic since 2005. Recent data revealed that the ISP is throttling roughly three-quarter of all BitTorrent traffic on its network. All this time the company has …
In a recent interview, Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler raises some serious concerns surrounding the MegaUpload bust. One question raised by the professor, which may not have been entertained by many prior to the wide public opposition to SOPA, is of …
The majority of the reports and press releases put out by the music industry in the past several years can be summarized in a few words: “Piracy is evil and we lose a lot of money because of it.” Even today, when more music is being sold than ever b …
Strictly speaking, the top five pirated films of the year were Fast Five, The Hangover II, Thor, Source Code, and I am Number Four. It’s not a ‘best of’ list, exactly, but that’s a different story. Even most opponents of SOPA/PIPA maintain a com …
During the last decade the RIAA embarked on an online anti-piracy action which would later go down as one of the most controversial ever seen. After spending years on various educational campaigns, none of which worked, a new plan was put into motion. …
After half a decade of loyal service, The Pirate Bay shut down its tracker in November 2009. The Pirate Bay argued that BitTorrent trackers have been made redundant by technologies such as DHT and PEX. In addition, The Pirate Bay team said that they mig …
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