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.
Over the years BitTorrent Inc. has acquired a dominant position with their two BitTorrent applications, uTorrent and the Mainline client. The two clients have over 100 million active users a month and this number continues to increase. There is no doubt …
“Don’t Make Me Steal” is a digital media consumption manifesto that claims to pinpoint what drives modern consumers to download movies using BitTorrent. It demands drastic changes from the entertainment industry, offering a promise not to download movies w …
uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005 and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application. The potential of the minimalistic client was soon picked up by BitTorrent Inc. who bought it in December 2006. In the years …
Every year Google and other search engines produce a year’s end list of the most searched for phrases and keywords. Chatroulette and iPad were the fastest rising searches on Google and Kim Kardashian and Sandra Bullock were the top searches on Bing. Bit …
For a year a bundled browser toolbar has been one of the main sources of income for uTorrent’s parent company BitTorrent Inc. The toolbar is offered to new users and is offered as an option with fresh installs. With a few dozen million downloads a year …
While religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam lean heavily on spectacular resurrections from many hundreds of years ago, the mere mortal scriptwriters of the modern entertainment industry like to use the concept in their stories too. In this d …
Today the hearing started with prosecutor Håkan Roswall presenting more evidence to the Court regarding ad revenues and other financial transactions that involve the defendants. Roswall further detailed why the prosecution thinks the defendants are com …
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