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.
A few days ago we wrote about a new website that exposes what people behind an IP-address have downloaded on BitTorrent. The Russian-based founders of the site developed the service so people can show their friends how public their downloading habits are, …
This is a guest post by TorrentFreak reader Jeroen, in response to the Belgian Pirate Bay blockade. Today, two of Belgium’s biggest operators, Telenet and Belgacom, got a court order to block the website ThePirateBay.org, and about 20 alternative U …
Following a complaint from the Motion Picture Association, earlier this year a judge at London’s High Court ordered leading UK ISP BT to block subscriber access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2. Although the blocking measures aren’t expected to be put …
Earlier today, the websites of BitTorrent Inc. (utorrent.com and bittorrent.com) were hacked. In what would seem (but isn’t) to be a vindication of the many ‘studies’ equating P2P with malware, downloads of the torrent clients µTorrent and BitTorrent …
Early 2011 game developers Alex Nichiporchik and Tom Brien announced that their newly founded company tinyBuild was working on the release of No Time To Explain, a flash-based platform game. Based on the trailers alone the game got raging reviews from …
In 2006 Apple launched its famous “Get a Mac” advertising campaign, comparing the capabilities of a ‘hip’ Apple computer and its ‘dull’ Windows counterpart. The campaign attracted a lot of attention, and even Microsoft responded to it directly with the 20 …
Last week UK business secretary Vince Cable confirmed that the website blocking provisions put in place under the country’s controversial Digital Economy Act would be abandoned. Communications regulator OFCOM had been asked to conduct a review to see if …
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