In a blow to the entertainment industry, a U.K. jury on Friday acquitted the operator of a popular BitTorrent search engine that enabled people to download music. Alan Ellis, 26, was charged with ...

One of the most popular engines for searching for movies and music distributed via BitTorrent has been ordered to remove links to illegally shared content, marking a victory for the entertainment ...

Expensive legal battles have caused TorrentSpy, the search engine for the BitTorrent file-sharing service, to shut down. A note on the home page of TorrentSpy’s Web site said it is shutting down “not ...

Ever catch one of those "butterfly effect" moments well before the seemingly insignificant event triggers a Web of interconnected, unpredictable results? The Ask Jeeves agreement with BitTorrent could ...

After a judge hit BitTorrent search engine isoHunt with a tough permanent injunction, isoHunt attorney Ira Rothken insists it was a bad decision. IsoHunt is nothing more than a search engine, he ...

Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the ...

Peer-to-peer developer Bram Cohen earned himself a place in Internet history with the creation of the BitTorrent file-swapping program. But his open-source software, now one of the most widely used ...

Torrentz was a meta-search engine for torrents. Rather than host torrents itself, it acted as a search engine that checked other torrent sites to find what users were looking for. Acting in a similar ...