Officially, a torrent is a file containing metadata related to a movie, song, software or photo downloaded from a peer-to-peer network -- although the term is commonly used to refer to any of the ...

Often downloading over the BitTorrent protocol is considered illegal. But to clarify, it completely depends upon what you are downloading. Downloading and sharing files over Torrent is completely fine ...

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 ...

Firefox: If you've used a BitTorrent search engine that lists lots of torrents but doesn't actually host any torrent files (like Torrentz), most of the time you still have to go to other third-party ...

No court has found the BitTorrent protocol inherently unlawful. But using BitTorrent to trade copyright-protected files will likely put you on the wrong side of the law. A Princeton study published ...

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 ...