Private Torrent Sites Run Their Own Mini-PRISM to Share Data on Users

Last month TorrentFreak took a look at the information being held on users by the operators of private BitTorrent trackers. We questioned whether it was…

Censorship Busters: The Challenges of Running a Pirate Bay Proxy

As Internet censorship becomes a weekly topic of debate, there are those who consider it their duty to free the web from artificial restrictions. Interestingly,…

Kim Dotcom Teases New Music Service… BABOOM

Earlier this week Kim Dotcom resigned as Mega director to focus on other projects, including his upcoming music service. TorrentFreak can now confirm that the…

H33t Down After Mysterious Domain Seizure, But not Out

The popular torrent site H33t.com has been pulled offline by a domain seizure. The domain registrar has removed all nameservers which renders the domain useless.…

Pirates Plan to Beat Up Amazon & Disrupt the Ebook Market

Last week we reported on Torboox, an unauthorized download site causing waves in the German eBook market. Speaking with TorrentFreak the site's operator has revealed…

NSA Can Spy on VPN Traffic and Other Encrypted Communication

H33T Goes Down as Nameservers Vanish

UK Internet Filter Blocks VPNs, Australia to Follow Soon?

In the UK mobile Internet providers are required to block content that may be considered "harmful" to children. The filter mainly targets adult oriented content,…