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 ...

In the early days of BitTorrent, using the application slowed your Internet down so much that most users resorted to only downloading at night. All of that changed when Stanislav Shalunov, then a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week I reported on CNET being sued by a coalition of artist over its Download.com site offering downloads of BitTorrent clients like uTorrent. CNET argued that it was well within its rights to ...

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 ...

Popular torrenting software uTorrent now comes bundled with an offer to download Epic Scale, a resource-intensive bitcoin mining software that claims to donate 75 percent of its proceeds to charity.