Some interesting comments here from blogger NerosNeptune1977, otherwise known as Eric. Eric is a live music trader and self-confessed music junkie, so the emergence of the BitTorrent protocol and ...

Thom Yorke has just released a record that everyone can enjoy and he did it all through BitTorrent, potentially starting a brand new way of music sharing. A great critic of online music distribution, ...

A simple, decentralized alternative to Spotify is poised to launch in the coming weeks. Aurous, a new music streaming site operating on BitTorrent networks, functions as a kind of musical version of ...

BitTorrent: It’s how you get movies and music for free. That’s what most people think. But if the musicians and filmmakers who are losing to pirates want to survive, they’re going to have to give ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. BitTorrent ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

Android/Web: BitTorrent has launched a new app for streaming media, BitTorrent Now. The app works something like a Netflix and Spotify combo by streaming both video and audio, but without label ...

Despite the proliferation of legal music sources like Spotify and Apple Music, record labels are still making a fuss over online piracy. In a newly leaked letter, the head of the Recording Industry ...

The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States. For the fourteenth year in a row, it's promoting tracks of the performing artists. Years ago ...

BitTorrent, the file sharing protocol, is considered a scourge by many in the global music industry and copyright enforcement; but the technology's legitimate applications helped one band's album get… ...

BitTorrent applet WeStream plays individual songs from a BitTorrent stream in your Java-enabled browser. Brought to you by BitLet, the in-browser BitTorrent client, just give WeStream the URL of the ...

Chances are, most people still think of BitTorrent as a tool to pirate the latest Game of Thrones episode — but for several years now, the company has been using its peer-to-peer internet technology ...