BitTorrent is a protocol developed by Bram Cohen in 2001 that revolutionized file sharing on the internet. Unlike traditional methods where a central server handles the distribution of files, ...

Today, BitTorrent announced the BitTorrent Bundle, a new kind of torrent format that not only includes free content, but also acts as a gateway to additional material, offering creators a chance to ...

We can all get the sense that the US government has suddenly gotten really serious about cracking down on online piracy. Yet it may ultimately become a moot point as a team of developers have designed ...

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The company behind the popular torrent downloading software uTorrent has announced a new project called BitTorrent Torque, an alpha release set of tools that can be run from HTML5-compliant web ...

The Pirate Bay is moving to magnet links today, no longer hosting torrent files for downloads with more than ten peers. The Pirate Bay is moving to magnet links today, no longer hosting torrent files ...

Bram Cohen’s cellphone buzzed once more. A reporter from Business Week was calling again. Wired magazine’s January issue, with a six-page feature on Cohen, had hit the Web that morning, and the phone ...

BitTorrent will crowd source ideas from its 170 million users for its new Sync program for file sharing across multiple computers. Of course, the company is best known for its slightly less legal uses ...

There are endless ways to share files between devices. Some of them are complex, ftp and Network File System (NFS). Some, such as Apple Bonjour and Windows Homegroup, work with only a few operating ...

BitTorrent has long billed its Sync file-sharing service as a peer-to-peer alternative to cloud storage, but on Wednesday the company announced it’s working with Onehub on a new, combined offering for ...

Verizon is making nice with the peer-to-peer networks. That might seem a surprising turn for the telephone company, whose Internet pipes are getting jammed with video downloads, many across ...

Are you using BitTorrent to get a video game patch or update, or to steal a movie? If it's the former, you're legal, and if the latter, you're not, but a new study says that just the fact you're using ...