Firefox: If you've used a BitTorrent search engine that lists lots of torrents but doesn't actually host any torrent files (like Torrentz), most of the time you still have to go to other third-party ...

Every year there is a torrent made to let listeners download most of the music for SXSW. This year's torrent has recently been posted (previous years' are also available at the same site). I don't ...

The PIrate Bay has made magnet links the default method of grabbing torrents, with plans to remove the links to torrent files this time next month. The PIrate Bay has made magnet links the default ...

The founder of popular Bit Torrent site IsoHunt, Gary Fung, has been ordered to remove the .torrent files for all infringing content—an order that could result in the site shutting down. US District ...

The Pirate Bay will remove .torrent files with more than ten peers from its site on February 29th. Magnet links will replace the old format, and the site will continue to operate as normal. The Pirate ...

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, ...

The Pirate Bay has completed its shift to using Magnet links rather than .torrent files, a move that will make it more difficult to see who has downloaded files using the site. The site introduced ...

Although a torrent file does not contain any actual media, it is illegal to upload such a file to a BitTorrent tracker if it points to so-called pirate content. That is the view of Nicholas Hall, a ...