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.
Found at The Piratebay Why RAR archives do not belong in torrents It has become a common practise to create torrents which contain umpteen RAR files, often in the form of a Release from The Scene, instead of simply directly adding the actual …
The Corporation received more than 20 awards, including an audience award at the the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. The Film gives insight into the inner workings of large and powerful corporations, and how these affect our society. The new torrent …
To you and me this might seem like a perfectly fair and legal thing to do. The company, Load ‘N Go Video is basically charging people to load movies onto iPods. Customers pay for the original DVDs, for the iPods and for the service of having them loaded. T …
IFPI Denmark sued the ISP, Tele2 in July. It asked the judge to force the ISP to block access to AllofMP3.com. A few days ago, the judge ruled in favor of the IFPI, but Tele2 will appeal this decision. The verdict hasn’t been taken well by ISPs the worl …
When I first switched to the Mac and asked friends of mine who had already been using the platform for a while, what the best BitTorrent client available was, most of them named either Transmission or Bit on Wheels. I tried both out, and from the two, my c …
Copyrighted books are distributed over BitTorrent just like copyrighted music, movies, TV shows et al. Book downloads can be found in two forms; audiobooks and PDFs. We aren’t going to talk about publishing houses suing file-sharers. The real culprits are …
The IFPI, the international arm of the RIAA reportedly barred a handful of university professors from entering their press conference. The professors are from the Centre for Technology and Society, a part of the prestigious Brazilian think-tank Fun …
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