BitTorrent Inc., the San Francisco developer of the world’s most popular tool for online piracy, has been trying for years to persuade studios, labels and other content owners to put torrent-sharing ...
True, but this is primarily done using the blocking of popular P2P ports. These port numbers are easily changeable from within a BitTorrent client. Since many apps use obscure ports, ISPs are unable ...
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 ...
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 ...
It’s pretty well established that torrent files can be used for downloading pirated music, movies, games, and more. But, the company BitTorrent wants it to be known that it has nothing to do with such ...
It’s a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated its already considerable ...
In December, BitTorrent Inc. announced its plan to radically change how we use the Internet with Project Maelstrom, a browser that retrieves web content from peer-to-peer-distributed torrents instead ...
Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le says Steam was originally called "Grid" and nearly launched as a peer-to-peer, ...
BitTorrent the company is all-but inextricable from its namesake -- a piracy-enabling file transfer technology that debuted in the early aughts. Can it escape? By Alex Pham Among the (many) oddities ...