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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 23rd, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Display Website Tracker Information

Most websites have tracking system installed. Some internal to analyze and create visitor statistics and many external by embedding advertisement and external website tracking tools in the code. Many users are not aware of these trackers and even fewer know what the individual trackers do and do not do.
That’s where Tracker Watcher comes into play. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

The Piratebay Sold To Swedish Software Company

We had to check the date on the story that was posted on Techcrunch this morning which basically stated that Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X bought The Piratebay for 60 million Swedish crowns. It is rare that websites like The Piratebay get bought off, they usually cease to exist either by legal pressure [...]

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Categories: P2p

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 29th, 2007
  • Comments: 1

Fake Torrent Finder

Fake torrents are spread into the system by organizations for two reasons. The first and in my opinion dominant one is to unsettle the torrent users by lowering the rate of successful downloads. Nothing is more discouraging than downloading the latest blockbuster for days only to see that you downloaded only garbarge in that time. In addition to this the trackers that spread the fake torrents are recording every bit of information they can get their hands on.

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Categories: Knowledge

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