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.
We had the chance to talk to Brano, the mastermind behind the subtitle startup, and ask him some questions about his motivation to start the site, why it’s so special, and future projects. TorrentFreak: Where are you from, and what do you do when you ar …
This move is part of a “continuing effort to work with the software industry” and will most probably lead to the company signing deals with other software vendors. As usual, the Adobe products will only be filtered out if the user has chosen to block co …
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead’s latest album “So Divided” leaked on BitTorrent several weeks before the official release date. Now this is not so shocking, albums have the tendency to leak. However, a post at the “official” unofficia …
Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent predicts a backlash against Apple’s ‘locked-in’ ecosystem in the next three years. Navin told Jemina Kiss at the Mipcom festival: “Apple is a phenomenal company – we’ve hired engineers fro …
We e-mailed Julian Cain, the developer of BitRocket and he was gracious enough to set aside some time to talk to TorrentFreak about his Mac BitTorrent client that’s been making headlines over the last few days. The interview: TorrentFreak: What m …
Why? Well very simple, it’s better to embrace new technologies like BitTorrent and other filesharing networks, than to fight them. As Mark Achbar puts it: “When I discovered that over 500,000 people had downloaded The Corporation, I had mixed fee …
Bill Gates admitted to watch pirated content on youtube. As you might know, the MPAA and RIAA are targeting youtube at the moment for its pirated content. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Bill Gates said: WSJ: You watch physics l …
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