Kazaa. LimeWire. Napster. There are hardly any widely used filesharing sites that didn’t try to “go legit” at some point after being dinged for facilitating piracy. It doesn’t usually work. Napster, ...

In my previous post on the BitTorrent protocol, I took a look at the main parts of what makes up its infrastructure. For this post I am going to focus on how data is uploaded and downloaded. The ...

The company behind the BitTorrent technology has opened the source code of its uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP). A production-ready implementation of the protocol code in C++ is now available from ...

Last year, BitTorrent Inc. acquired the company that makes uTorrent, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients available on the Windows platform. The next major version of the official BitTorrent ...

The protocol behind uTorrent, uTP, has been made open source by BitTorrent Inc, for developers to create BitTorrent clients and programs using the format. [TorrentFreak] Explore more on these topics ...

It’s a simple question, really. How does BitTorrent, Inc. feel about the fact that the peer-to-peer protocol it created is used by millions of people to avoid paying for creative content? After all, ...

uTorrent client creator BitTorrent has been asked to put a stop to the software being used to download and share pirated content. BitTorrent is a protocol used to share large amount data across the ...

BitTorrent wants to change how people manage their torrents, and is hoping to do it with hardware partnerships and a revamped software approach announced at this year's CES. Senior writer Seth ...

Dethroned king: Originally created by programmer Brian Cohen in 2001, BitTorrent provided an extremely effective peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol for sending files and other digital content over the ...

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 ...