Om Malik of GigaOm.com has published a list of five reasons why he foresees trouble with the new legit media download service from BitTorrent. Although I back his general opinion -- that this new ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — BitTorrent Inc., makers of a technology often used to trade pirated copies of Hollywood movies, is launching a Web site that will sell downloads of films and TV shows licensed from ...

uTorrent, the torrent program with more than 130 million users, previously earned admonishment from Google and other tech companies because of software vulnerabilities that enable hackers to use ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

BitTorrent users are increasingly finding themselves under the watching eye of anti-piracy agencies and ISPs trying to detect copyright infringement or curtail bandwidth hogging, often employing ...