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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a simple question, really. How does BitTorrent, Inc. feel about the fact that the peer-to-peer protocol it created is used by millions of people to avoid paying for creative content? After all, ...

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 ...

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 ...