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.
The excellent article below comes from ABC Australia and is written by Nick Ross. Well worth the read. When it comes to copyright theft and piracy, many people assume there’s just one side – the side of truth, justice and copyright owners. Beyond that t …
Update: This post is for the Belgium blockade only, where IP-addresses are not blocked. This doesn’t work in the UK, Netherlands etcetera. There, people have to use VPNs or proxy sites. Update: TPB shared some unblocking tips here. Today, two of Belg …
By now it’s a well-trodden path. Partner up some law firm with a film, music or game studio who aren’t bothered by negative publicity. Hash together a piece of software, throw it into a BitTorrent swarm, harvest some IP addresses and obtain the real identi …
Earlier today, the websites of BitTorrent Inc. (utorrent.com and bittorrent.com) were hacked. In what would seem (but isn’t) to be a vindication of the many ‘studies’ equating P2P with malware, downloads of the torrent clients µTorrent and BitTorrent …
At the end of July 2011, the admin of XtremeSpeeds.net, a private BitTorrent tracker, reported that his house had been raided by the authorities. He said that he was questioned under suspicion of being part of IMAGiNE, one of the leading P2P release groups …
In 2006 Apple launched its famous “Get a Mac” advertising campaign, comparing the capabilities of a ‘hip’ Apple computer and its ‘dull’ Windows counterpart. The campaign attracted a lot of attention, and even Microsoft responded to it directly with the 20 …
Unfortunately many Internet providers are still limiting or blocking BitTorrent traffic today. For BitTorrent users this is a great annoyance, and although encryption helps in some cases, it often is very hard to get around the restrictions. But acco …
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