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.
In the early part of the last decade when they were still the innocent side of 15-years-old, one schoolfriend showed another an Iomega ZIP drive (right) full of ‘warez’ – games and software with a big fat zero written on their price tag. Having never se …
While the takedown of Megaupload last week came as somewhat of a shock, some things in life are a little more predictable – like the speed and sharpness of UK artist Dan Bull. Dan, who has covered many online issues such as those involving The Pirate Ba …
Mid-2010, nine sites connected to movie streaming were targeted by the U.S. government. They included NinjaVideo.net, at the time one of the Internet’s most prominent video streaming sites. Hana Beshara, known online as Phara, was the first of the sit …
Doctorow’s presentation is here. It is time well spent — Cory Doctorow is also quite the entertainer, even with a very serious message. If you want to speedread a transcript instead, you can do so here. In short, Doctorow argues that the copyright indu …
YouHaveDownloaded is a great resource that reveals what people behind an IP-address have downloaded on BitTorrent. The founders of the site developed the service so people can show what others have been downloading. Over the past weeks we’ve used th …
Make no mistake, the biggest entertainment companies in the world do not like file-hosting site MegaUpload. Update January 2012: MegaUpload Taken Down, Seized by the Feds Currently the huge cyberlocker resides on the destroy-them-all SOPA-directed “r …
When the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits were starting to crop up in the United States last year, attorney Mike Meier was quick to promote himself as a defense lawyer. The DC attorney was proudly listed on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s list of lawyers …
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