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.
Last September, IMAGiNE, one of the Internet’s leading BitTorrent release groups, stopped distributing new films. This immediately sparked speculation that the authorities were onto them, and last month the confirmation came that this was indeed the case …
Despite the best efforts of Dutch lobby groups, and American entertainment cartels, the internet is a place where barriers don’t stay barriers for long. Throw a roadblock out and a new route is recalculated. So it is with DNS. Add blocks in the ICANN sy …
The Pirate Bay is not happy with the “anonymous” groups who decided to DDoS Virgin Media for complying with a court order. Last week Virgin was the fist ISP to block The Pirate Bay. According to The Pirate Bay these DDoS attempts go against a free In …
“Because today’s threats do not recognise national boundaries, our responses must also transcend borders,” Ms Napolitano told her hosts in a speech overly dominated by assurances the US would respect the privacy of Australian citizens. The legal r …
Spearheaded by the MPAA, Hollywood’s major movie studios continuously emphasize how copyright infringement costs them billions of dollars every year. Pirates are ruining the industry and are the direct reason for the loss of thousands of jobs, they sa …
The New Zealand High Court has decided to return several items of property belonging to Kim Dotcom. The Megaupload founder is allowed to keep his $20,000 a month spending budget and regains use of his Mercedes-Benz G55AMG, a luxury car worth $250,000 …
With help from the music industry’s biggest arch-rival The Pirate Bay, UK rapper Dan Bull is on course to get his first official ‘hit’ listed in various international single charts. With a song titled “Sharing is Caring,” Bull is not exactly the type o …
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