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 article is a (rather lengthy) guest contribution from Joe Karaganis, vice president at The American Assembly at Columbia University and former Program Director at the Social Science Research Council. Karaganis is also responsible for the most objectiv …
Copyright is a double-edged sword, and those who sharpen one side often get cut by the other. We see it happening time and time again, often revealing the double standard and one-sidedness of lawyers and copyright holders. Last year, for example, the U. …
The Paris Hilton sex tape, One Night in Paris, became the subject of a new round of pay-up-or-else lawsuits this year. Owners XPays Inc. tracked hundreds of individuals sharing the ‘movie’ on BitTorrent and eventually sued 843 John Does at the District Cou …
With 100 million active users every month, uTorrent and BitTorrent mainline have close to a 50 percent market share of all BitTorrent clients. Both pieces of software are based on the same code, which is developed by the San Francisco based company BitTorr …
This coming Sunday, Hollywood’s biggest stars will walk the red carpet into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards ceremony. In anticipation of the glamorous Oscar night, we enter the dark side of the movie business to find out which of the nominees i …
A few days ago the piracy research firm Envisional published an elaborate study into (unlawful) file-sharing traffic on the Internet. Commissioned by NBC Universal the researchers combined older Internet traffic estimates with their own research on the use …
Following two adjournments, the trial of file-sharing site operator Vincent Valade got underway in France today. Scheduled to run for 3 days, the Paris Criminal Court will hear evidence that claims between 2005 and 2006, Valade “provided films without the …
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