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.
The stable 1.6.1 release is not yet on the download page, but is already available for download over here. The uTorrent team unintentionally resolved the exploit vulnerability in a beta version months ago according to former uTorrent developer Ludvig Strig …
The article titled “Pirates of the Multiplex” discusses the new age of sharing movies over the Internet with the help of technologies like BitTorrent. The author describes his experience with UKNova, a torrent site of which he was a member. It allowed him …
The New York based intellectual property law attorney Bennett Lincoff shares this opinion and suggests a licensing system that would benefit both consumers and the music industry. Lincoff sent us a copy of this open letter he wrote to Apple CEO Steve Jo …
We first wrote about Xtorrent in September of last year while it was still in private beta, then went on to review the first public beta. Since then, a lot has changed. As expected, a lot of bugs have been stomped out and the overall performance of the …
The owner of BTjunkie contacted us earlier this week. He told us that the developers of TorrentQ tried to advertise on his site through Adbrite, but he knows better of course. Installing one of these clients will result in a hijacked browser and numero …
Inspired by our previous posts on fake BitTorrent trackers, Ben Maurer decided to take a good look at the behavior of these trackers. For this research he used a BitTorrent client, and started to connect to fake torrents. The torrents were hosted by BayTSP …
Once you point Hey!Watch in the direction of a YouTube video you want to download, it will get it, encode it in a format of your choice, and act as a super seeder for the first 12 hours, after which, the user and anyone else who has downloaded the video, c …
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