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 ...

The large majority of content found on BitTorrent is illegal, a new study out of the University of Ballarat in Australia has confirmed. Researchers from the university’s Internet Commerce Security ...

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 ...

Just saying the word "BitTorrent" makes those at record labels and movie studios cringe, but honestly, it's not always used for nefarious purposes. The Internet Archive, which is a non-profit digital ...

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 ...

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