BitTorrent is a protocol developed by Bram Cohen in 2001 that revolutionized file sharing on the internet. Unlike traditional methods where a central server handles the distribution of files, ...

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The Pirate Bay was made famous by its stand for unfettered file sharing, through torrents, and its fight to save the open internet. In a month, thepiratebay.org will remove all torrent files from its ...

BitTorrent will crowd source ideas from its 170 million users for its new Sync program for file sharing across multiple computers. Of course, the company is best known for its slightly less legal uses ...

Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he ...

BitTorrent has long billed its Sync file-sharing service as a peer-to-peer alternative to cloud storage, but on Wednesday the company announced it’s working with Onehub on a new, combined offering for ...

Are you using BitTorrent to get a video game patch or update, or to steal a movie? If it's the former, you're legal, and if the latter, you're not, but a new study says that just the fact you're using ...

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 ...

What is torrenting, and is it safe? Is it legal to torrent, and if not, what happens if you get caught? Here’s everything you need to know to before you start downloading torrents. Torrenting is a ...

Torrent sharing is a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing method used mainly to download files like music, movie, etc., from the internet. Basically, the user installs a BitTorrent client like uTorrent ...

I have just picked up a new PC and want to turn my old system into a headless, dedicated media server. I have a few questions around that. 1. I have Windows 11 Home on the old system. I need something ...

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 ...