In recent years the governments of European countries along with Australia, New Zealand and the Unites States upped their efforts to block access to the most popular torrenting websites. Some popular sites were completely shut down (KickassTorrents, TorrentProject, and ExtraTorrent) and others are blocked across the world. Some of the best torrenting websites that...
While it’s a good idea to always encrypt all your traffic, sometimes you may need to access certain websites via your regular connection and at the same time hide your torrenting activities. This can be achieved with split tunneling or SOCKS5 proxy. SOCKS5 proxy does not itself encrypt your traffic (unless it goes over...
When you torrent, software such as uTorrent, BitTorent, Vuze, Popcorn Time etc does not hide your IP address. For this reason, copyright infringement agencies can monitor torrent swarms and easily obtain IP addresses of torrenters. As a matter of fact, literally anyone can now access the full list of torrent files downloaded by a...
Note: If your school completely blocks VPN and you need to bypass school firewall in order to torrent, please refer to The Best VPN to Bypass College Firewall guide. Since piracy is illegal in most parts of the world, torrenting is not allowed on college WiFi connections. While many schools completely block torrenting ports...
Kodi is a streaming service that requires a high-speed Internet connection to offer uninterrupted streaming experience. When choosing the right VPN for Kodi, fast and reliable VPN service should be a priority. Because most Kodi users prefer to run Kodi on Amazon Fire TV, Nvidia Shield, Roku, Asus Chromebox, Gem Box, Raspberry Pi and...
Even though Popcorn Time (and torrentsTime) seems like a streaming service similar to Netflix and Hulu, it’s not! Popcorn Time downloads multimedia content using BitTorrent protocol from the same trackers used by uTorrent, Vuze, qBitTorrent or any other torrenting software. For this reason, a free browser extension cannot protect Popcorn Time and torrentsTime download...
uTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients. It offers incredible download and upload speeds as well as a number of custom options. Unfortunately, certain countries classify torrenting as an offense. All major ISPs fine their users when they catch them torrenting. Selective traffic throttling is another common issue for uTorrent users. As...
Since anti-piracy institutions monitor torrent swarms, BitTorrent users are forced to use anonymizing services to conceal their online identity. While there is a number of free VPN & proxy services, they are limited in speed, or more accurately, extremely limited in speed, timeframe and bandwidth, and are likely ad-based. If you’d like to use...