Click to viewEarlier this week, a Lifehacker reader caught downloading copyrighted material using BitTorrent told us about the scary warning letter she received from her ISP after a big media company ...

Illicit material is often available on torrent sites like the Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents (pictured here). KickAssTor screenshot 6/24/14 Social media and the community news site Reddit were ...

Over the last couple week's TiVo let slip that they're going to start adding banner ads when we try to fast-forward commercials (and to make things even more annoying, Congress is considering a bill ...

If you've been plagued with BitTorrent downloads that won't finish, unplaying videos, or—worse yet—videos that claim to require special players, weblog ...

Not a big deal, but if you’ve recently switched machines, it might be the piece of software that you’ve forgotten to install. This Chrome extension, called OneClick, which came out of BitTorrent’s ...

At least 23,000 file sharers soon will likely get notified they are being sued for downloading the Expendables in what has become the single largest illegal-BitTorrent-downloading case in U.S. history ...

Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox are busy funding some new, super-duper anti-BitTorrent technology called BitStalker. The difference between it and other anti-BitTorrent systems is that it’s said ...

What is torrenting, and is it safe? Is it legal to torrent, and if not, what happens if you get caught? Here’s everything you need to know to before you start downloading torrents. Torrenting is a ...

A US ISP is arguing that not all users of the BitTorrent technology are using it to download pirated content iStock US internet service provider (ISP) Cox Communications is arguing that BitTorrent ...

BitTorrent, whose software has been used for years to illegally swap millions of movies and other pieces of content, insists with a straight face that it’s actually part of the solution to piracy — ...