Services like eDonkey have picked up the load for file sharers as a result of law enforcement action against illegal “tracker” sites.
BitTorrent Meets With MPAA
The creator of the large-file sharing utility has moved from Seattle to San Francisco, hired a COO, and will try to beat Microsoft to the legal P2P movie sharing market.
Opera Builds BitTorrent Into Browser
The popular high-speed file-sharing tool BitTorrent has been embedded into a test preview of the Opera browser.
Microsoft Aims Avalanche At BitTorrent
British researchers for the Redmond-based software and game console maker discussed the company’s work on a superfast peer to peer sharing system.
Feds Use the Force Against BitTorrent
When “Star Wars Episode II: Revenge of the Sith” became available for download hours before the theatrical release, the Force departed from users of the increasingly popular BitTorrent technology. Federal agents have launched a Death Star styled offensive on file sharing website owners and users.
BitTorrent Search Engine Goes Live, Experiences Technical Difficulties
With BitTorrent becoming THE preferred method for peer-2-peer users, the idea of a search engine with an index of torrent files only can be quite appealing… unless you are apart of the entertainment establishment.
BitTorrent Search: A Bit Dodgy, a Bit Cool
Bram Cohen, the beekeeper of Internet swarms, directs his attention to widening the avenue of BitTorrent, his own revolutionary P2P protocol into an expressway of mass-transited file sharing. Within the next two weeks, Cohen plans to release a BitTorrent based search engine, cavorting with former Yahoo! strategist Ashwin Navin.
Denial and Television 2.0: The BitTorrent Effect
If you’re at all interested in copyright, the movie industry, BitTorrent, or Bram Cohen (its creator), I recommend reading The BitTorrent Effect from the January 2005 issue of Wired.