Some interesting comments here from blogger NerosNeptune1977, otherwise known as Eric. Eric is a live music trader and self-confessed music junkie, so the emergence of the BitTorrent protocol and ...

Thom Yorke has just released a record that everyone can enjoy and he did it all through BitTorrent, potentially starting a brand new way of music sharing. A great critic of online music distribution, ...

Android/Web: BitTorrent has launched a new app for streaming media, BitTorrent Now. The app works something like a Netflix and Spotify combo by streaming both video and audio, but without label ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. BitTorrent ...

When Taylor Swift pulled her music from Spotify earlier this month, she brought the high-watt media glare onto a question that’s dividing the industry: do on-demand services shrink the pie by turning ...

BitTorrent: It’s how you get movies and music for free. That’s what most people think. But if the musicians and filmmakers who are losing to pirates want to survive, they’re going to have to give ...

BitTorrent’s name may still be associated with piracy, but BitTorrent the company has been working to legitimize the peer-to-peer technology as a tool that can be used to distribute content in legal ...

While poor college students and twentysomethings see torrents as that no-cost way to catch Game of Thrones, BitTorrent Inc. hopes to change this with a new revenue model that supports collaborating ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

BitTorrent, the file sharing protocol, is considered a scourge by many in the global music industry and copyright enforcement; but the technology's legitimate applications helped one band's album get… ...

BitTorrent applet WeStream plays individual songs from a BitTorrent stream in your Java-enabled browser. Brought to you by BitLet, the in-browser BitTorrent client, just give WeStream the URL of the ...

Music pirates have a new tool to put artists in the poor house. The Web site BitLet.org lets users upload torrent files that contain MP3 or OGG files, which begin streaming right after. So if you’re ...