In its long fight against Internet piracy, the Recording Industry Association of America is gunning for the technology that enables it: BitTorrent. Brad Buckles, RIAA’s VP for anti-piracy, has told ...

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 ...

The creators of the BitTorrent file-swapping application will soon begin cracking down on how other software developers use the BitTorrent name, company President Ashwin Navin said Monday.

Peer-to-peer developer Bram Cohen earned himself a place in Internet history with the creation of the BitTorrent file-swapping program. But his open-source software, now one of the most widely used ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BitTorrent Inc., the leader in peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, today announced plans to acquire live streaming platform DLive.tv and migrate all BitTorrent related ...

File sharing software provider BitTorrent announced Tuesday that its acquisition by the Tron Foundation is now officially complete. BitTorrent said it will now operate from Tron's new San Francisco ...

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Update, Aug 7 - 14.50 CEST: We updated the article to acknowledge the many legitimate uses of the torrent technology as well as provide our telemetry data to show how frequently black-hats try to ...