The Pirate Bay was made famous by its stand for unfettered file sharing, through torrents, and its fight to save the open internet. In a month, thepiratebay.org will remove all torrent files from its ...

Although a torrent file does not contain any actual media, it is illegal to upload such a file to a BitTorrent tracker if it points to so-called pirate content. That is the view of Nicholas Hall, a ...

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 ...

Be careful with what you torrent. A new tool on the black market is helping hackers distribute malware through torrent files in exchange for a fee. On Tuesday, security researchers at InfoArmor said ...

If you are the pirating sort that likes to download torrent files from Pirate Bay, some changes are coming. Apparently, Pirate Bay is making some moves to reduce the bandwidth needed for the site and ...

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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. Back in 2009, ...

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 ...

Here's a major security issue that might have gotten buried in this week's patch-release deluge: A critical code execution hole in µTorrent, everyone's favorite lightweight torrent application. What's ...