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, one of the UK’s leading Internet service providers unveiled a new system it believes will enhance the safety of families online. HomeSafe from TalkTalk is a network-level blocklist product which offers three key features. Firstly it offers ‘Virus …
For many years, when BitTorrent sites around Western Europe and the United States suffered legal pressure and were forced to look for new homes, fingers have pointed to the east. Russia is not exactly considered a market leader when it comes to copyright-r …
Following a ruling by a senior judge in the Patents County Court today, law firm ACS:Law and owner Andrew Crossley can indeed be pursued for so-called “wasted costs” relating to more than two dozen abandoned cases. The decision follows the law firm’s ca …
As part of “Operation Save Our Children” ICE’s Cyber Crimes Center has again seized several domain names, but not without making a huge error. Last Friday, thousands of site owners were surprised by a rather worrying banner that was placed on their doma …
This week, an ever more familiar picture started to emerge, the third such situation in well under a year. US authorities had begun another round of domain name seizures, this time against sites connected with sports streaming. The domains seized includ …
Another month, another copyright lawsuit from adult media outfit Perfect 10. This time the company is chasing file-hosting service Megaupload and its owner Kim Schmitz, associated companies such as megarotic.com, megaporn.com, megavideo.com, and megaclick. …
Update: Top Empornium and PureTNA alternatives / replacements. For the last few days the huge BitTorrent porn trackers Empornium and PureTNA have been dark, with both sites routing to 127.0.0.1. Understandably, users of the sites have been pretty concer …
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