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.
When Megaupload was suddenly wiped from the world stage in January the cyberlocker market was plunged into chaos. Fear, uncertainty and doubt spread throughout the file-hosting business and millions of users were left without their files and had concerns o …
According to figures released last month by Médiamétrie, Megaupload’s Megavideo was one of France’s most popular Internet video services. In December 2011, Megavideo ranked 9th behind market leaders YouTube and big names such as Daily Motion, Canal + and …
In the aftermath of the MegaUpload shutdown, file-hosting sites continue to change their services. After Uploaded.to, another prominent cyberlocker has decided to block all US visitors. Turbobit.net users from the US now see the following message wh …
“Hong Kong, what an awesome place to do business and to host my new phantom persona,” Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom wrote here on TorrentFreak last December. “I should write a book about doing business in Hong Kong, that’s how good it is. People there …
With a self-proclaimed 50 million users a day, MegaUpload was one of the largest file-hosting sites on the Internet. Last week the feds shut down the popular site accusing its founder and six others of money-laundering and several copyright related cri …
While the shutdown last week of Megaupload and the arrest of its founder and management team was certainly dramatic, a situation of perhaps even greater gravity is beginning to emerge. Over the past 48 to 72 hours, the operators of many prominent cyberl …
Uploaded.to, one of the most popular file-hosting sites in the Internet, has closed its doors to US visitors. The move is most likely a response to the FBI crackdown on MegaUpload two days ago. US visitors of Uploaded.to currently get the following m …
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