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 House version of PROTECT IP was made public, and as many feared it is even worse than its predecessor. Named the E-PARASITES Act, the legislation aims to make it easy for the authorities and copyright holders to shut down sites they deem to ‘f …
Journalist, broadcaster and former Wall Street stock broker Max Keiser thinks the various Occupy movements should team up with local Pirate Parties. He argues that both stand for similar issues, as both are resisting powerful monopolies. Even more s …
Early September it came to light that the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) was being sucked into a scandal. While monitoring movies leaked to The Pirate Bay, anti-piracy company DoubleTrace said it had discovered that IP addresses in the BitTorrent swarms …
Late last year both the MPAA and RIAA informed the Office of the US Trade Representative that RapidShare is a piracy haven, a so-called rogue website. In the hope of correcting this and other misconceptions surrounding their operations, RapidShare then …
It is almost apologetic. Apologetic for defending the civil rights that our ancestors fought, bled and died to give us, their children and grandchildren. Thinking about what hurts and doesn’t hurt sales misses the point entirely. A corporation’s profits …
“The Swedish Film Institute’s goal is to support the production, distribution and display of valuable films, to preserve and make accessible Swedish film heritage and to represent Swedish cinema internationally,” says a notice on the Institute’s site. B …
We get a lot of comments on articles from people saying things like “Yeah, it’s stealing. Just embrace it already” or “Good excuse to steal right?.” There are editorials in mainstream newspapers that say “Such theft costs the copyright- or trademark …
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Left Quote“The Pirate Bay has been one of the most important movements in Sweden for freedom of speech, working against corruption and censorship.
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