BitTorrent is a protocol developed by Bram Cohen in 2001 that revolutionized file sharing on the internet. Unlike traditional methods where a central server handles the distribution of files, ...

BitTorrent is taking another crack at solving the age-old problem of pushing really big files around with the beta launch of SoShare, a utility that will let users share bundles of files up to 1TB in ...

At its most basic, peer-to-peer file sharing -- often referred to as P2P -- transfers files between two individual PCs (one to one), as opposed to one server downloading to and uploading from several ...

The BitTorrent protocol has downloaders help send the file to other downloaders, reducing the burden on the original owner. This usually results in all participants downloading the file faster. The ...