News written by Matti Robinson (August, 2008)

TorrentPrivacy is a new product from the guys at Torrentreactor.net designed to keep your BitTorrent downloads and shares private. The product is a combination of an SSH tunnel tool, a pre-configured uTorrent client and remote privacy services. We'll take a quick sneak preview into how does it actually work.

Installation:
After registering yourself at TorrentPrivacy.com you'll be able to download the 1 Mb installation package. Installation directory cannot be changed from the default "c: orrentprivacy" but I'm sure there's a reason behind it. After couple of clicks through the installation you are presented with the one click setup. After few seconds of connecting with TorrentPrivacy servers a Launch button appears and you're ready to go.

Peer-to-peer company BitTorrent Inc. is laying off over a fifth of their employees. The company was forced to drop 12 of their 55 employees after a disastrous failure in marketing their online media store. According to Valleywag, the $15 million deal with giant electronics retailer Best Buy was cancelled, because of an FCC ruling on file sharing.

In addition to developing the widely spread and adopted BitTorrent-protocol, the company has collaborated with major movie and television studios such as 20th Century Fox, Comedy Central, Lionsgate Films, Paramount, Warner Brothers and Spike TV, as well as network device manufacturers D-Link and Buffalo. The aim of the collaborations was to distribute TV shows and movies legally via P2P networks.