BitTorrent

On the heels of its recent release of US diplomatic cables WikiLeaks has released an encrypted file after telling its followers on Twitter to "stay tuned for an important announcement."The contents of the 571 megabyte file are a mystery as it cannot be accessed without a decryption key, which the ...

Enforcing statutory penalties on intellectual property infringements in the media industry is moving up a notch. In the US, a federal judge recently agreed to allow the US Copyright Group to force internet service providers (ISPs) to hand over the identities of at least 23 000 users who had sourced ...

I recently attended a media roundtable in San Francisco with top executives from BitTorrent, which invented the popular file sharing technology that now has as much as 80-million monthly users.Here are some key points about how BitTorrent sees itself as a company, and where it wants to go:BitTorrent has ...