Could BitTorrent turn out to be an Internet service provider’s best friend? Half a dozen years ago, the popular file-sharing protocol was nothing but a headache for ISPs as broadband users filled ...

BitTorrent today launched a new BitTorrent client: uTorrent Web. Not to be confused with uTorrent (stylized as µTorrent), and despite what its name might suggest, you still have to download and ...

Rightly or wrongly, when you think of BitTorrent, you usually think of piracy. But with Project Maelstrom, BitTorrent is aiming to leverage its peer-to-peer file distribution technology to the very ...

Late last year, BitTorrent announced its latest ambitious project for making the web more open: a browser that can access websites that are hosted through the BitTorrent protocol rather than on ...

BitTorrent has released its own peer to peer browser as a public beta. BitTorrent published the alpha of the browser, known as Project Maelstrom, last December. Project Maelstrom uses the same ...

Opera Software has teamed with BitTorrent Inc. to include the BitTorrent protocol in the upcoming version of the Opera Web browser. Opera and BitTorrent have signed an agreement covering Opera's use ...

Yo ho yo ho, a pirate’s life for me. And for you! And for everyone! Because downloading BitTorrent files just got a lot easier. BitTorrent is finally pushing its torrenting browser plug-in, BitTorrent ...

AllPeers, the private file-sharing extension for Firefox, has added full support for BitTorrent. Although AllPeers has always supported BitTorrent transfers of its own files (i.e. the files you share ...

BitTorrent, the company that builds and operates peer-to-peer tools for people to distribute digital files and communicate with each other, is today making an advance on its latest attempt to tackle ...

BitTorrent’s strong support for an open internet is a defining characteristic of the company. Its vision of a “distributed” internet where users retain more control over their data and personal ...