torrentfreak.com - 1/2/2009
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During the last year there has been a surge in businesses offering VPN (Virtual Private Network) services to those who prefer to operate with a degree of anonymity on the Internet. A VPN service assigns your PC with a different IP address to your regular one, making it much more difficult for ...
coda.fm - 1/10/2009
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coda.fm —
Copyright notice The torrent (metadata) files that we
host do not contain data that might be copyrighted...
in any way. No copyrighted and/or illegal material are hosted by us. It is therefore not possible to hold the people behind Coda.fm responsible ...
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Coda.fm | Music albums BitTorrent downloads directory
torrentfreak.com - 1/3/2009
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torrentfreak.com —
Spotify is a music service that gives users
access to a huge library of music, through a...
lightweight application that looks like a mashup of the best parts of iTunes and Last.fm. Music is streamed, partly supported by P2P technology, but it plays ...
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Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy
freedownloadmanager.org - 1/7/2009
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freedownloadmanager.org —
What is Free Download Manager ? It is
a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and...
manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe , open-source software distributed under GPL license. Warning : beware of fake versions . ...
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Free Download Manager - absolutely free download ...
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$50 for a lifetime of anonymous internet access: too good to be true?
CrunchGear —
... A private VPN with unlimited bandwidth will probably run you at least $20 per month. Torrentfreak asked one VPN provider and found that the reason for that is simply that passing all that traffic requires purchasing a certain amount of dedicated bandwidth. For a decent speed line, that’ll run from $10 to $20 a month. So how is VPN4Life planning on providing unlimited anonymized data service for a flat one-time fee? No matter how many people sign up, their investment in the service is eaten up by cost in a matter of months. And unfortunately, it’s likely that the ...
The Pirate Bay Launches Ipredator VPN
NewTeeVee —
... The idea to shield file sharers through such a VPN isn’t exactly new. There are probably a few dozen companies already offering VPN or proxy services, and a number of them specifically target BitTorrent users with names like Superchargemytorrent.com, Torrentfreedom.com or Torrentprivacy.com. However, most of these services cost more than Ipredator; indeed Torrentfreak calculated a while back that “(a) reputable VPN service, offering fast transfer speeds and unlimited transfers costs around $10 to $20 per month.” ...
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