Considering all the VPN crackdowns taking place, not to mention cease and desist letters from ISPs, piracy isn’t as risk-free as it used to be. That said, it is a whole lot more convenient than it ...

The best-known torrent site in the world now streams pirated content too. The Pirate Bay has added support for Torrents Time, a plugin that lets users stream torrents directly inside their browser.

Picture this. You’re in Russia and want to see The Batman or the latest season of Better Call Saul. You head to a pirating site and download the torrent. So far, so ...

One of the biggest potential drawbacks to file sharing is the potential for downloading a hidden virus or malware. Of the top two torrent sites, The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents, is one safer than ...

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Kickass Torrents, one of the largest torrent sites, was shut down by Philippine officials after they received complaints from the Philippine Association of the Recording Industry. While the domain ...

We all need a safe way to download files; sometimes, using a web browser isn’t the best option. With this in mind, we chose to test an app called Tribler, and so far, we’re relatively impressed with ...

Two weeks ago, when fellow ZDNet blogger George Ou and I started having our lively debate about net neutrality legislation, George pointed out that because Bit Torrents and allied technology (a.k.a.

Torrents-Time is an interesting little browser plugin that lets you stream torrents without needing to download a whole separate client. It’s a boon for anyone who needs a simple way to torrent, but ...

Officially, a torrent is a file containing metadata related to a movie, song, software or photo downloaded from a peer-to-peer network -- although the term is commonly used to refer to any of the ...