Have you heard of torrents but don’t know what they are or how they work? Don’t worry because you’re not alone. Torrenting is a widely used method of sharing large files online, but it may seem ...

Faisal was very tensed as he had been trying to send his assignment to his university through e-mail but the size of the assignment was more than 100 megabytes and the e-mail could attach only up to ...

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Just when the Wild Wild West of online world seemed to have been somewhat tamed with the regulation of Webhard and peer-to-peer services, yet another type of file-sharing service has emerged as a ...

BitTorrent is a protocol developed by Bram Cohen in 2001 that revolutionized file sharing on the internet. Unlike traditional methods where a central server handles the distribution of files, ...

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 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 ...

Patrick Gray: Intellectual property lawyer, Michael Williams, is the Australian copyright lobby's point man on peer-to-peer software. He works for the music and movie industries, TV networks, and more ...