BitTorrent is an incredibly efficient way to move digital information. If you have a video, for example, that you want to send to a friend or associate around the world, don't bother trying to attach ...

BitTorrent "hubs" that publish lists of movies, TV shows and other free downloads suddenly went dark this weekend, in a major victory for Hollywood that highlights vulnerabilities in technology behind ...

Firefox: If you've used a BitTorrent search engine that lists lots of torrents but doesn't actually host any torrent files (like Torrentz), most of the time you still have to go to other third-party ...

Torrent files have been a top choice of users across the internet to share files for almost two decades. This weekend, TorrentFreak reported that the world’s oldest active torrent file has just turned ...

BitTorrent Inc., the San Francisco developer of the world’s most popular tool for online piracy, has been trying for years to persuade studios, labels and other content owners to put torrent-sharing ...

Every year there is a torrent made to let listeners download most of the music for SXSW. This year's torrent has recently been posted (previous years' are also available at the same site). I don't ...

A lot of people like to download stuff from the Internet using torrents or Internet download managers because even if you turn your computer off, you can just pause your download and resume ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

The Pirate Bay will remove .torrent files with more than ten peers from its site on February 29th. Magnet links will replace the old format, and the site will continue to operate as normal. The Pirate ...

For better or worse, Tron's attempt to offer a customized virtual token through BitTorrent will potentially encourage more file sharing. 'Users who participate will exchange tokens with each other on ...

BitTorrent "hubs" that publish lists of movies, TV shows and other free downloads suddenly went dark this weekend, in a major victory for Hollywood that highlights vulnerabilities in technology behind ...