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.
Today the Senate’s House Judiciary Committee is handling the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). Because there are dozens of amendments to be discussed, a vote on the bill probably won’t happen before tomorrow. This gives the public some extra ti …
File-hosting service Megaupload sued Universal on Monday claiming that the label had sabotaged its viral advertising campaign. The Hong Kong-based company said that Universal wrongfully claimed copyright over the Mega Song, a promotional track commissioned …
While there is nothing inherently ‘unsafe’ about the Direct Connect file-sharing client when compared to similar systems, users often choose to share their entire media libraries with the world, all at once, and in the same place. In the statistically unli …
Last Friday, file-hosting service Megaupload surprised the Internet by launching a campaign fronted by a Printz Board-produced song featuring some of the world’s most prominent recording artists. Needless to say, the spectacle of P Diddy, Will.i.am, Ali …
In June 2009 the Swedish Pirate Party gained an impressive victory in the European Parliament elections. With 7% of the vote, the party earned a seat in the European Parliament, with the possibility for a second if the Lisbon Treaty passed. The treaty e …
With hundreds of millions of page views each month, Fileserve is listed among the 10 most-visited file-sharing sites on the Internet. The site allows users to store files in the cloud for personal use or subsequent sharing with the rest of the world. …
A few years ago best-selling author Paulo Coelho made a Russian translation of The Alchemist available without permission from his publisher. As a result the sales in Russia skyrocketed from 1,000 books a year to over 1,000,000. The above is just one …
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