The BitTorrent protocol has downloaders help send the file to other downloaders, reducing the burden on the original owner. This usually results in all participants downloading the file faster. The ...

Click to viewBitTorrent is the go-to resource for downloading everything from music and movies to software and operating systems, but as its popularity continues to grow, so do the number of tools ...

A pile of improvements for the web UI, Mac version, and general performance.

BitTorrent downloads are initiated on a desktop PC by launching the BitTorrent client on a special type of file called a ".torrent". The .torrent is small, containing just enough information to ...

Peer-to-peer file sharing is getting its hooks into Twitter, thanks to an update from BitTorrent, the company that makes the popular µTorrent client and which is seeking to make a big, legitimate ...

Today, BitTorrent announced the BitTorrent Bundle, a new kind of torrent format that not only includes free content, but also acts as a gateway to additional material, offering creators a chance to ...

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 ...

Late last year, BitTorrent announced its latest ambitious project for making the web more open: a browser that can access websites that are hosted through the BitTorrent protocol rather than on ...

BitTorrent has released its own peer to peer browser as a public beta. BitTorrent published the alpha of the browser, known as Project Maelstrom, last December. Project Maelstrom uses the same ...