Spend enough time on the Internet or around tech-savvy types, and you’re bound to hear about BitTorrent. Likely, if you’re new to the concept, you have a few questions, and probably some ...

The PIrate Bay has made magnet links the default method of grabbing torrents, with plans to remove the links to torrent files this time next month. The PIrate Bay has made magnet links the default ...

Torrent sharing is a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing method used mainly to download files like music, movie, etc., from the internet. Basically, the user installs a BitTorrent client like uTorrent ...

The Pirate Bay will remove .torrent files with more than ten peers from its site on February 29th. Magnet links will replace the old format, and the site will continue to operate as normal. The Pirate ...

Firefox: If you've used a BitTorrent search engine that lists lots of torrents but doesn't actually host any torrent files (like Torrentz), most of the time you still have to go to other third-party ...

Filesharing titan the Pirate Bay has promised to remove all .torrent files from its site. But it's not to placate rights-holders—it's going to replace them with "magnet links" instead.

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 ...

There are times when you have the need to download a file from the internet, such as an open source file, for example, a Linux distro. These files tend to be quite large, often multi gigabytes in size ...

The world’s most popular file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, is set to drop the files that have helped it become the most infamous Bittorrent hosting portal, removing support for the ageing trackers ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Following a decision to shut down its tracker in November 2009, file-sharing titan The Pirate Bay now ...