torrenting
Best Free Vpn for Torrenting – Reality or Fiction?
Are you looking for the best free VPN for torrenting? Well, you’ve come to the right place, since we’ve taken a look at a ton of free VPNs and come away with only one conclusion–there aren’t any! The best you can do is get a GOOD discount on a paid VPN that is perfect for torrenting. In this article, we will make sure you are making the right choice for torrenting–whi...[Read More]
UK ISPs Send Piracy Alerts – How to Protect Yourself
If you live in the UK, and you actively pirate media content, you might want to start rethinking how you use torrenting or what lengths you should go to protect yourself. Because starting in 2017, ISPs will begin emailing you if you are caught pirating illegal media. It’s similar in the US, and some ISPs–in conjunction with music and media industries, are starting cracking down (like Time Wa...[Read More]
UK has Gone Full Batshit
The UK has gone full batshit, implementing censorship and surveillance laws like we’ve never seen before. Well, we’ve seen it in China, and now Russia–but the UK? Really? If you weren’t aware, the Investigatory Powers Bill has now passed. In essence, it means privacy in the UK is ****cked. TorGuard, a VPN provider, explains it best: “this new bill forces electronic data to be stored by UK In...[Read More]
Best Cheap VPN for Torrenting
Using a VPN when torrenting is becoming increasingly more important since ISPs (internet service providers) are cracking down and monitoring more and more torrent connections. It’s very easy for copyright holders to hire snoopers to track down IP activity that gets routed to your ISP like Comcast or Time Warner. When your ISP gets this info, you will receive a warning that your internet could be c...[Read More]
What are the Best Torrent Applications of 2016?
In this guide, we will help you pick the best torrent application for you in 2016. Over the years, torrent applications have drastically changed, evolved, or worsened–whether from consistent updates, enforced ads–or no updates at all, it’s always important to stay up to date on what the best torrent applications are. Torrent applications vary in function, usability, monetization models...[Read More]
How to Use TorGuard with Vuze
If you’ve been torrenting with Vuze without some form of proxy or VPN, you’ve been putting your IP address out there for anyone to see. Every computer connected to the internet has an IP address. When you start downloading a torrent, you enter something that is called a BitTorrent swarm. This swarm is a collect of IP addresses distributing data through a peer to peer network where people share dow...[Read More]
How to Torrent with ExpressVPN
If you’ve been torrenting without a good VPN, you’ve put yourself at unnecessary risk from snoopers. There are companies paid to monitor P2P activity, and it’s quite easy for your internet service provider to monitor all of your activity with deep packet inspection.When you’re torrenting, others can see your IP address and find your real world location quite easily. In fact...[Read More]
How to Speed Up Torrents and Block Throttling
Do you experience slow download speeds while torrenting, but experience fast download speeds for everything else? Your internet service provider (ISP) could be intentionally bottlenecking or throttling your P2P (peer to peer) connections. ISPs are often guilty off shaping bandwidth in this fashion when you’re downloading large torrents, or streaming HD video. While it’s quite annoying,...[Read More]
How to Check Your Torrent IP
When you use a BitTorrent program, you are leeching (downloading) and providing (seeding) files via a peer to peer protocol called BitTorrent. Each time you’re inside a download or providing one, you’re inside what is referred to as a “torrent swarm”. Each person in this swarm has a numerical value associated with their connection. This value is called an IP address. Like y...[Read More]
Best VPNs to Use With Torrents Time
Torrent streaming has been around for awhile, but just recently, a new website called Torrents Time has brought torrents into the browser alongside streaming capabilities. Torrents Time is like other popular movie / TV show streaming site, but the difference is that the files are sourced directly from torrents themselves. The process sounds a bit confusing, but after a quick download of the Torren...[Read More]
Will Netflix VPN Block Increase Torrenting?
On January 14th, Netflix’s Vice President of Content delivery pushed out a blog post outlining Netflix’s stance on VPN use. In summation, the post described how Netflix does not support VPNs. If the last month is any indication, Netflix REALLY doesn’t support VPNs. VPNs are virtual private tunnels that allow users to access Netflix without geo restrictions based on IP addresses. ...[Read More]
How to Torrent with TorGuard VPN
Torrenting without a VPN can be dangerous. Of course, this depends on what you’re downloading, but even if you’re downloading content that is not illegally shared, you still may not want others to know your IP address. It doesn’t matter which application you’re using, whether that is uTorrent, BitTorrent, Vuze, or our favorite- qBittorrent–your IP address is shown t...[Read More]