Kazaa. LimeWire. Napster. There are hardly any widely used filesharing sites that didn’t try to “go legit” at some point after being dinged for facilitating piracy. It doesn’t usually work. Napster, ...

BitTorrent on Tuesday announced a new type of media format it is calling BitTorrent Bundle. The company today launched an alpha, to keep up its own trend, built as part of a partnership with the label ...

The tech company says that "Game of Thrones" isn't the most popular show on its network and encourages people to watch the HBO show legally. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large BitTorrent is ...

Often downloading over the BitTorrent protocol is considered illegal. But to clarify, it completely depends upon what you are downloading. Downloading and sharing files over Torrent is completely fine ...

In my previous post on the BitTorrent protocol, I took a look at the main parts of what makes up its infrastructure. For this post I am going to focus on how data is uploaded and downloaded. The ...

Last year, BitTorrent Inc. acquired the company that makes uTorrent, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients available on the Windows platform. The next major version of the official BitTorrent ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More About 10 percent of all internet traffic is due to BitTorrent, which ...

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 ...

Could BitTorrent turn out to be an Internet service provider’s best friend? Half a dozen years ago, the popular file-sharing protocol was nothing but a headache for ISPs as broadband users filled ...

BitTorrent on Tuesday announced it is launching an open beta of BitTorrent Live, its P2P streaming protocol for the masses. Now that it’s open to all, the company can proudly use the motto: “Live ...

The company behind the BitTorrent technology has opened the source code of its uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP). A production-ready implementation of the protocol code in C++ is now available from ...