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.
I almost cried this morning. Last summer we debunked a study by the University of Ballarat’s Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL). Carefully we spelled out the many obvious mistakes that were made, both in data collection and the research design …
This was a strange week. Three of the ‘new’ movies that entered the list this week are all older releases. This sometimes happens because of a tracker error, but we couldn’t find an obvious one this time (perhaps a thanksgiving effect?). That said, it feel …
For all those who visited a BitTorrent site prior to 2010, the name aXXo probably rings a bell. Since the fall of 2005, those four iconic letters have been attached to hundreds of torrent files that linked to pirated movies. In the years that followed t …
Hot on the heels of recent threats from Vice President Joe Biden and Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel directed at sites offering unauthorized movies and music, last month U.S. authorities targeted several sites they claimed we …
During recent years the file-sharing community has grown used to the dramas surrounding The Pirate Bay. It got raided, it came back. Its hosts have been threatened, it came back. Its bandwidth suppliers have faced legal action, but it still it came back. W …
This week there are two newcomers in the top 10. Clash Of The Titans is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent this week, again. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference onl …
This week there are two newcomers in the top 10 including Avatar which returned (again) after the release of the Blu-ray rip. The Bounty Hunter is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent this week. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by …
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