BitTorrent has a new format for their file-sharing platform called a BitTorrent Bundle. This allows content creators to charge money for their content directly from within the torrent file. More...
The UK High Court strikes back: Following last years ruling that The Pirate Bay and its known addresses must be blocked by all major ISPs, the Court has now added three other sites to the ruling. More...
A federal court in Illinois has ordered a man to pay $1.5m in damages - the largest award of its kind - after evidence proved that he had illegally shared ten adult movies via BitTorrent. More...
An industrious user, known as Qarizma, has developed a small utility called ThePiratePatch to allow users to easier circumvent the block, imposed by some ISPs, to access The Pirate Bay. More...
A few days ago it was announced that uTorrent would start shipping with compulsory "Featured Torrents" with an update rolling out in a few weeks. After user feedback, they've changed their game-plan. More...
The popular small bittorent client will in the next few weeks include a no opt out "featured torrent" section within the client window in a new move to generate some serious revenue for the company. More...
A Demonoid staff member was apparently arrested in Monterrey, Mexico in October 2011, and a criminal case of intellectual property rights violations is being built against the site's owners. More...
After an extended period of downtime from a DDoS attack, followed by a period of malicious redirects to malware and spam sites, Demonoid has been shut down by the Ukrainian government. More...
BitTorrent is introducing a new opensource JavaScript interface for web developers and users for experiencing the power of BitTorrent in your browser. More...
Pirate hunter sounds like something from the movies, but it's the job description of about 35 student employees of proMedia, who spend their days tracking down copyright violators and making them pay. More...
Indian internet providers have taken steps to reduce the amount of piracy ongoing in the country, blocking sites such as The Pirate Bay, as well as Vimeo, for seemingly no discernible reason. More...
It has been revealed that shortly before being shut down, Megaupload was investigating options for raising money for the organisation through a public stock offering. More...
BitTorrent is a BitTorrent client originally created by Ludvig Strigeus (ludde), and is currently maintained by a team of developers at BitTorrent, Inc. A client is a computer program that follows the More...
The well known torrent-based file sharing web site BTJunkie has decided to shut down its operations voluntarily after seven years, claiming the recent legal actions against such sites were the reason. More...
Tixati is a free and easy to use BitTorrent client featuring detailed views of all seed, peer, and file transfer properties. Also included are powerful bandwidth charting and throttling capabilities More...
The Pirate Bay has announced that soon it will stop offering torrent links on its web site. Instead the site will offer its visitors magnet links and has already made the change for its default links. More...
2011 is almost over, and it's time for us to look back at what we spent the year doing. Here's a list of the most illegally downloaded shows of 2011. Here's a shocker: the numbers are lower than 2010 More...
If you've been downloading content via BitTorrent without privacy controls, your download history may now be public knowledge, as a new site exposes downloads made to individual IP addresses. More...
According to the Swiss government, piracy might not be making as big a dent in content owners' pockets as they would have us believe. In fact, piracy hasn't changed their bottom line much at all. More...
FrostWire, a BitTorrent client (formerly a Gnutella client), is a collaborative effort from hundreds of Open Source and freelance developers from around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers More...
After last month's injunction forcing Britain's largest ISP to block access to some file-sharing sites, the MPA is trying to make other ISPs comply, but some are threatening to stand up against them. More...
FrostWire, a BitTorrent client (formerly a Gnutella client), is a collaborative effort from hundreds of Open Source and freelance developers from around the world. In late 2005, concerned developers More...
FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. Using the most recent version of FrostWire allows users to enjoy the best program... More...
Duke Nukem Forever, the long-awaited sequel to Duke Nukem 3D, has reportedly hit torrent sites ahead of release. The leak, orchestrated by the "Complex" scene group, sees Duke in the hands of gamers days before... More...
Wouldn't it be cool for geeks to pull out their iOS device - their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - and access their collection of media and files from torrents, without jailbreaking their device or... More...
People who happened to download The Expendables via BitTorrent may want to check their mail: they could be one of the 23,000 people, and counting, the US Copyright Group (USCG) plans on suing as... More...
Paramount has announced that the upcoming horror movie The Tunnel will be released simultaneously on DVD and BitTorrent. In an unconventional move, the studio are allowing the film's producers to sell off frames of their... More...
Google has begun blocking torrent-related searches from its autocomplete and instant search. Now when users attempt to search using Google's new autocomplete feature, torrent related words will no longer autocomplete in the search field. Google announced... More...
The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD). qBittorrent is based on Qt4... More...
Facebook has taken a lot of heat recently over its security settings and implementation. With the wealth of information some people expose on their profiles for would be identity thieves, it’s a gold mine... More...
The Tonido Plug is a simple, small NAS and server device all wrapped up into one tiny unit. The Plug allows you to access your files and media from anywhere around the world with... More...
newteevee.com reports that Isohunt, a popular torrent site, was issued a permanent injunction by US Judge Stephen Wilson of the District Court of California, Southern District. The injunction forces owner Garry Fung to immediately block... More...
In a move to help curb piracy, Microsoft has partnered up with Lithuanian anti-piracy firm LANVA in order to take down the largest BitTorrent site in the country, LinkoManija. According to TorrentFreak, the two companies... More...
After waiting for more than two years, Alan Ellis, the founder of music sharing website "Oink" whose televised arrest made headlines in 2007 is a free man. In a crushing blow to the music industry, Ellis,... More...
A trojan named Troj/Qhost-AC, has been spotted on torrent sites labeled as a keygen for popular software. But in a strange surprise, the trojan would modify the users host file, rather than generating a... More...
Australia has been known to have high levels of censorship. It should come as no surprise to those in the land down under that the government is planning to filter P2P and Bit Torrent traffic... More...
llegal copies of the new GTA IV game appear to be available for download from bit torrent file-sharing sites, six days before the game is officially released. According to the games website Kotaku, the first... More...
Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on... More...
In the last few days, certain Neowin forum members have reported that an image of Vista SP1 x86 Final has leaked to torrent sites. This file is supposedly a slipstreamed image of the final Service... More...
It was only a matter of time.. Not too long after Microsoft had released a developer build of the Windows 7 Milestone 1 release to a select few, review and opinion pieces started to... More...
Chris Pirillo notified Bink that his new site now provides x64 bit edition of Windows Vista Beta 2. A few days ago he setup a site so people can get Vista beta 2 easier and... More...
Nov. 25: µTorrent 1.2.2 Released µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. µTorrent was designed to use as little cpu, space and memory as... More...
µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little CPU, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected... More...
So what makes it any better than one of the others out there? Simple; first off it's designed from the ground up to be fast (entirely written in C), lightweight, free of 3rd party junk... More...
µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected... More...
µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected... More...
Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent. The researchers claim... More...
Many readers will be familiar with the name Bit Torrent, yet might be less familiar with the creator of Bit Torrent, Bram Cohen. We've been lucky enough to grab a few minutes of... More...
Hardy news site, The Register, recently published a detailed analysis of the file sharing protocol Bit Torrent. Bit Torrent has received attention in the main stream news after reports that it was carrying as much... More...
One group tried get out ahead of the lobbyists and demonstrate the usefulness of P2P in areas not usually covered by the mainstream media, and they've used SP2 to do it. Downhill... More...