Can BitTorrent – often regarded as the de facto file sharing protocol for online content piracy –achieve the legitimacy to attract brand advertisers? While that remains to be seen, the company took a ...

BitTorrent, Inc., has announced a licensing program aimed squarely at spyware and adware trying to ride the wave of BitTorrent's popularity. Is the aim true, and the arrow strong enough?<BR><BR>Story.

Bram Cohen’s cellphone buzzed once more. A reporter from Business Week was calling again. Wired magazine’s January issue, with a six-page feature on Cohen, had hit the Web that morning, and the phone ...

A trio of Hollywood distributors — A24, Oscilloscope and Honora — are joining the launch of BitTorrent Now as pilot partners. The file-sharing service announced BitTorrent Now on Thursday as a refresh ...

BitTorrent will crowd source ideas from its 170 million users for its new Sync program for file sharing across multiple computers. Of course, the company is best known for its slightly less legal uses ...

Unlike downloading files in your browser, BitTorrent downloads usually require a separate program, called a torrent client, to grab that sweet, sweet data. But with so many clients out there, picking ...

Reports on the new licensing scheme BitTorrent hopes will keep spyware and adware makers from using the BitTorrent trademark are circulating today, along with the news that Opera Software is the first ...