BitTorrent’s strong support for an open internet is a defining characteristic of the company. Its vision of a “distributed” internet where users retain more control over their data and personal ...

Peer-to-peer sharing platform BitTorrent has helped ferry out terabytes and terabytes of data to users in small bits, much to the anger of the TV, movie, and music industries, which fear it a cesspool ...

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 ...

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 ...

No court has found the BitTorrent protocol inherently unlawful. But using BitTorrent to trade copyright-protected files will likely put you on the wrong side of the law. A Princeton study published ...

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 ...

Chances are, most people still think of BitTorrent as a tool to pirate the latest Game of Thrones episode -- but for several years now, the company has been using its peer-to-peer internet technology ...

Om Malik of GigaOm.com has published a list of five reasons why he foresees trouble with the new legit media download service from BitTorrent. Although I back his general opinion -- that this new ...