Humble Freebie After Signing Up for Newsletter Fullbright’s narrative adventure game ‘Tacoma’ is currently free to keep via Humble Bundle‘s Humble ...
March 22, 2019 at 1:21 am by Ron Perillo
BitTorrent Sold To Blockchain Start-Up For $140m When it comes to peer-to-peer applications, BitTorrent is probably one of the most popular available. Ok, with the possible ...
June 19, 2018 at 10:33 am by Mike Sanders
Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, has vowed to launch his own cryptocurrency in an effort to combat what he calls the “waste” associated with ...
April 26, 2017 at 8:30 pm by Ashley Allen
Torrentz.eu, the world’s largest torrent meta-search engine, has suddenly closed down. The site was founded in 2003, and offered links to torrents indexed on sites such as ...
August 6, 2016 at 12:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Movie studio Voltage, the makers of the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club – starring Matthew McConaughey as an AIDS sufferer who illegally sells medication to those similarly ...
May 19, 2016 at 8:20 pm by Ashley Allen
After a number of large datacentres are now banning heavy BitTorrent traffic on their networks, popular VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA) has started routing its ...
November 1, 2015 at 5:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Sony Pictures seriously considered the acquisition of BitTorrent Inc. according to leaked presentation slides procured from TorrentFreak. The documentation shows Sony ...
September 13, 2015 at 3:50 pm by John Williamson
uTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client in the world with 150 million monthly users, is looking into monetising its services. The free torrent client, which already ...
August 24, 2015 at 4:15 pm by Ashley Allen
Hacking has been big news in recent years, with everyone from Sony to Apple having breaches and personal information released. The latest in this long stream of hacks is a ...
August 24, 2015 at 11:00 am by Gareth Andrews
BitTorrent just announced a new mobile app named Shoot that is based around P2P connectivity between individuals. While this sounds good to some people, others may think that ...
June 17, 2015 at 1:58 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Forget DMCAs, DRM, fines, and lawsuits: the best way to tackle piracy, as those in the know have been screaming for years, is to make content affordable and easily accessible. ...
May 31, 2015 at 2:55 pm by Ashley Allen
Inspired perhaps by pirate home cinema app Popcorn Time, it seems Netflix is considering peer-to-peer (P2P) support for its video streaming service. A recent job post by the ...
May 21, 2015 at 2:58 am by Ashley Allen
Last year, Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead, released his second solo album as a digital download through BitTorrent, and figures suggest he could have made up to $20 ...
January 7, 2015 at 4:55 pm by Ashley Allen
Project Maelstrom, BitTorrent’s torrent-based browser, was announced on Wednesday as an invite-only alpha version. BitTorrent believes that Maelstrom “is the first step ...
December 11, 2014 at 12:34 am by Ashley Allen
BitTorrent – infamous as the platform of choice for downloading copyrighted content from torrent sites – is making moves to become a legitimate content provider ...
December 1, 2014 at 11:45 pm by Ashley Allen
