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.
Mr Cameron stated during the speech, that it will be Conservative policy to increase copyright terms from 50 years, to 70, echoing the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extention Act of 1998, which increased US copyright terms by 20 years. The reasoning behind th …
The image on the right is shown on the bottom right of the “Pirate Master” (what’s in a name) homepage. It is supposed to list news from blogs and other web-resources that write about the show. However, it also shows links to .torrent files on sites like …
With the new election season hotting up in the United States, and scuffles between states for presidential primaries, you do end up wondering about the election process. With Representatives having to be re-elected every two years, it is vital for them to …
Being only able to milk Billions when they feel they should be making Trillions seems to have given them tunnel vision when it comes to reading reports such as the “Summary of Community Customs Activities on Counterfeit and Piracy Results at the European B …
The ad-supported model is currently being tested on episodes by the video gamers network G4, but is likely to be tested on episodes from other publishers in the future. The video ads are short video clips delivered by YuMe Networks, a company that is sp …
LimeWire just doesn’t want to die; it’s digging in against the pressure to settle with the RIAA and is refusing to join the likes of Grokster, Kazaa, iMesh, Bearshare and MetaMachine (eDonkey) in the ‘where are they now?’ department of P2P file-sharing. Th …
The research is based on the outcome of the MPAA funded LEK study that revealed that the movie industry lost $1.3 billion in the US, and $6.1 billion worlwide. Based on these figures, the IPI concludes that Movies Pirates (online and offline) are respo …
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