Bittorrent News and Articles

House of the Dragon beats The Rings of Power on pirate sites

In a nutshell: While not a widespread phenomenon anymore, piracy continues to drive a significant amount of Internet traffic around the world. TV shows like House of the Dragon and Lord of the Rings are particularly popular, even though the former seems to be way more interesting for P2P pirates.

Full story By Alfonso Maruccia, September 26, 2022, 12:04 PM 43 comments

qBittorrent is a fully featured yet lightweight BitTorrent client

qBittorrent is our preferred BitTorrent in Windows: it's free and open-source, uses little RAM and sports an anonymous mode for better privacy.

By Ivan Franco, September 8, 2022, 11:47 AM

Software Download of the Week

Transmission is a powerful yet uncluttered BitTorrent client

Transmission is a free cross-platform BitTorrent client. It runs natively on Windows, macOS and several Linux distributions including Ubuntu OS.

By Ivan Franco, November 20, 2021, 8:26 AM

The Web

Moviemakers sue VPN service for promoting and facilitating piracy

The first copyright infringement lawsuit against a VPN in the US

By Rob Thubron, March 8, 2021, 10:47 AM 35 comments

Tech Culture The Web

Major bust targeting "Sparks" group results in dramatic piracy decline

Could this be the Achilles heel of the pirate community?

By Adrian Potoroaca, September 7, 2020, 4:02 PM 32 comments

The Web Tech Culture

BitTorrent usage is climbing and streaming services' original content is to blame

An unforeseen side effect of original content production

By Shawn Knight, October 3, 2018, 2:46 PM 26 comments

Industry The Web

BitTorrent Inc. sold to blockchain entrepreneur behind Tron cryptocurrency

Ownership of the file-sharing pioneer changes hands

By Shawn Knight, June 18, 2018, 1:16 PM

Gaming

Acid Wizard Studio posts 'Darkwood' torrent to The Pirate Bay before pirates do

Developer suicide or brilliant marketing move?

By Cal Jeffrey, August 28, 2017, 1:45 PM 21 comments

Tech Culture

Suspects caught recording Fate of the Furious in cinema heading for trial, face jail time and fines

Was it worth it?

By Rob Thubron, April 20, 2017, 1:45 PM 23 comments

News Around the Web

Weekend tech reading: Galaxy S8 revealed, the dumbest stuff at CES, inside BitTorrent's collapse

By Matthew DeCarlo, January 15, 2017, 1:08 PM

The Web

Deadpool takes the award for most pirated movie of 2016

"Captain Deadpool! No, just Deadpool."

By Rob Thubron, January 3, 2017, 2:45 PM 13 comments

The Web

Popular music torrent site What.cd gets shut down

French police have seized the site's servers

By Tim Schiesser, November 18, 2016, 6:15 AM

The Web Security

KickassTorrents shut down after alleged owner arrested in Poland

By Tim Schiesser, July 20, 2016, 7:30 PM 23 comments

The Web

Millions pirate Game of Thrones shortly after release

By Tim Schiesser, April 25, 2016, 8:00 PM 21 comments

Gaming Tech Culture

The people who upload torrents

By Patrick Klepek, April 20, 2016, 7:30 AM 43 comments

The Web Tech Culture

Judge hands out $450,000 in fines and orders file-sharing sites closed in Expendables 3 piracy case

By Rob Thubron, March 29, 2016, 4:00 PM 13 comments

The Web

Pirates flock to download leaked Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray

By Tim Schiesser, March 23, 2016, 5:45 PM 21 comments

Security Apple

First full OS X Ransomware found inside popular Mac BitTorrent application

By Rob Thubron, March 7, 2016, 6:15 AM

Software

BitTorrent launches new subscription tier that removes ads from uTorrent

By Shawn Knight, February 12, 2016, 5:15 PM 8 comments

Gaming Software

Cracking PC games is getting too difficult, say pirates

By Tim Schiesser, January 6, 2016, 8:00 PM 12 comments

The Web

Game of Thrones labeled the most pirated TV show of the year for the fourth consecutive time

By Shawn Knight, December 28, 2015, 2:15 PM

Security The Web

One in three pirate sites contain malware, report finds

By Shawn Knight, December 11, 2015, 2:15 PM 8 comments

Industry

MPAA reveals it was responsible for shutting down PopcornTime.io and torrent site YTS

By Shawn Knight, November 4, 2015, 12:45 PM 7 comments

Microsoft Software

Some torrent trackers are banning Windows 10 due to privacy concerns

By Shawn Knight, August 24, 2015, 2:30 PM

Security The Web

Torrent site proxies and mirrors are loaded with malware

By Shawn Knight, August 7, 2015, 3:15 PM