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 asked by Michael Calore of Wired News if the content on the new video store would contain DRM and if it would be cross-platform compatible, Cohen said, “we’re rolling out with some content DRM’d, using Windows DRM.” By this he also made it clear that …
Not too long ago, Microsoft announced its Xbox Video Service. It has proven to be clunky, and at times, non-functional. Users have been experiencing all sorts of problems with it. From extremely slow downloads to glitches and failed transfers. Even Xbox’s …
Asia is associated with piracy. This association isn’t off the mark. People here use P2P networks to download copyrighted music (among other things), and having bootleg software on one’s computer is a completely normal thing. The idea of paying $100 for an …
Windows Vista has a brand new Network Stack. According to tests conducted on both Windows XP and Vista, the new stack might actually speed up BitTorrent transfers by an estimated 10%. We’ve been hearing a lot about how Windows Vista has a brand new …
In general BitTorrent clients are not the most “resource using” applications. But how do they actually affect, and slow down Windows? Thepcspy compared the three most popular BitTorrent clients. And it seems that uTorrent is indeed entitled to be c …
The flag error is fixed in the more recent releases, but there are still a lot of other issues coming up every now and then. For example, some report that Bitcomet favors other Bitcomet users. Other rumors are that Bitcomet is hammering peers with announce …
Tip: Want to download Torrents anonymously? Try BTguard, a great way to download torrents securely. 1. Hack the max half-open TCP connections If you’re on XP sp2, your TCP connections are limited to a maximum of 10. This might hurt your downloading s …
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