Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

BitTorrent is a file transfer protocol that allows you to share files easily and at high speed, but since it is also used for sharing pirated software, many people should have the image that it is ...

First of all, I will head to a shop or department that sells DVD to buy a new DVD. I will find the DVD I'd like next. Then shoot the barcode printed on the DVD package with the mobile phone. After ...

Using this freeware, you can search, manage, automate and download Torrents from your desktop. Most of the time when you search for Torrents on Torrent search sites, you get unwanted ads, buttons, ...

The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents are the two top file-sharing services in the world. Which one is safer to download from, and how can file sharers protect themselves from potentially downloading ...

BitTorrent bakes its Bundle program into the latest version of its uTorrent and BitTorrent software. Next up: torrent pay walls. Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt covered Google and security for CNET News ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge", is making over one million pieces of archived ...

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 ...

When someone creates a torrent file, they actually break up the original file into smaller chunks and save information about these chunks inside the torrent file. This data includes the SHA1 hash of ...