Not all Virtual Private Networks are the same with regards to keeping user data or information private and safe. A VPN encrypts the traffics and channels it in secondary servers. The most common reason to make use of a VPN is to keep the information of the user private and secure. However, not all are the same, and not all …
Best VPN for Torrenting
In case you didn’t know yet, torrenting is an activity, which enables individuals to access premium and exclusive digital items free. People utilize it for entertainment and computer needs. However, unluckily, torrenting is subjected to as an illegal and bad activity. In fact, many people have been caught and penalized for accessing it. Are you one of those people who want …
DMCA Experiment, Part 3: Searching For The Delete Triggers
So far, so good. In the first two steps, we established that anti-piracy firms use bots that check for certain parameters, the most important being keywords or keyphrases. If an exact release name is used as a title (for example Game.Of.Thrones.S05E01.FRENCH.720p.HDTV.x264-Scaph), it seems to triggers a sure takedown, even if the rest of the subject line clearly shows the file …
Highwinds And The New Usenet Monopoly
Usenet is one of the oldest discussion platforms on the Internet. Long before the World Wide Web with all its flashy websites and services became what we know today, people all over the world discussed politics, programming, or asked where the next episode of Star Wars would be released (remember that one episode of The Simpsons?). Of course, in the …
How To Download Anonymously With eMule
(List of peers in eMule. Click to enlarge.) What do you mean by “anonymous downloading?” Every time you download a file on eMule and connect to the network, you transfer your IP address (“telephone number” for the Internet) to the network, meaning you can be identified easily by anyone who wants to. Among those people are your ISP, and various …
How To Get Started With XDCC
This article is part of the introduction to our series on XDCC / IRC downloading. If you already know the basics, feel free to click through to one of the other parts: Introduction: XDCC Downloading For Beginners How to get started with XDCC Part 1: How To Configure mIRC For XDCC Downloading Part 2: How To Download With mIRC Part …
How To Download Torrents Anonymously
(List of peers / downloaders for a torrent. Click to enlarge.) What do you mean by “anonymous downloading?” Everytime you download a file on BitTorrent and connect to the network, you transfer your IP address (“telephone number” for the Internet) to the whole swarm, meaning you can be identified easily by anyone who wants to. Among those people are your …
PeerBlock Review
PeerBlock, along with it’s predecessor PeerGuardian, has been around since 2003 as one of the first ways to protect file sharers from unwanted attention from anti-p(r)ivacy outfits and everyone else trying to analyse and track the networks, such as government agencies. Is it really worth the effort to install this free software to your computer, and how effective is the …
DMCA Experiment, Part 2: Ramping Things Up
Now that we got our first takedown in step 1 of this experiment, things are going to get a bit more effective and aggressive. Since the sheer amount of possibilities and variations in header, file sizes etc. are just too many to test using our home Internet connection, we’re moving to a VPS, a virtual private server you can rent …
DMCA Takedown Experiment: Our Collection Of DMCA Complains
Our first takedown: Read the complete claim here