BitTorrent on Tuesday announced it is launching an open beta of BitTorrent Live, its P2P streaming protocol for the masses. Now that it’s open to all, the company can proudly use the motto: “Live ...

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 company BitTorrent on Wednesday launched a new marketing campaign to distance itself from piracy: DoesBitTorrentEqualPiracy.com. On the site, the company lists over 50 ways it has helped the ...

The company behind the BitTorrent technology has opened the source code of its uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP). A production-ready implementation of the protocol code in C++ is now available from ...

Non-profit digital library turns to BitTorrent to make its materials available to the world SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library with the stated ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BitTorrent Inc., a leader in peer-to-peer protocols and products, today announced a token that aims to expand upon its vision of a decentralized internet.

Torrent. In the context of consuming mainstream music and movies, the word reverberates with illegitimacy. The Bittorrent protocol, however, is neutral -- a disinterested technology specification. The ...

For my next three blog posts I am going to take a close look at the BitTorrent protocol. Since its implementation in 2001, it has become one of the most common protocols for sharing files on the ...

The move follows the recent launch of BitTorrent's new App Studio facility, which adds apps – Android/iPhone-style – to software that uses the BitTorrent protocol. Although the BitTorrent protocol has ...

In my previous post on the BitTorrent protocol, I took a look at the main parts of what makes up its infrastructure. For this post I am going to focus on how data is uploaded and downloaded. The ...

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