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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mention BitTorrent and people mistakenly assume that you’re talking about piracy. “We have this problem because there were so many piracy sites that used it that BitTorrent become a verb, to ...

uTorrent client creator BitTorrent has been asked to put a stop to the software being used to download and share pirated content. BitTorrent is a protocol used to share large amount data across the ...

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 ...

As we noted earlier this month, Bram Cohen hopes his BitTorrent Live protocol will prove to be a major disruptor for the streaming media business. Today, Cohen shared that BitTorrent Live – despite ...