March 28, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google You're somewhat on the right track. You do get a bit of increased privacy from a private tracker, but the greater ...

The popular Demonoid.com, a semi-private BitTorrent tracker, has been taken offline. Both the torrent tracker and the site have been unresponsive for over twenty-four hours. Although there has been no ...

Ed. note: Ever go on a BitTorrent scavenger hunt but end up with bum files from a fake tracker? All-things-BitTorrent site TorrentFreak explains how to quickly determine the authenticity of a torrent ...

Is it wrong for websites to help people find things online that shouldn’t be there? And if it is, should the sites keep track of their users and what they do? These are the main questions raised in a ...

Most of us know that .torrent files require a tracker to keep track of who (peer clients) has which piece of a particular torrent file. Azureus is a popular Java-based BitTorrent client with an ...

Anti-piracy operatives have lost an edge over illegal downloaders of movies and software thanks to a new feature in BitTorrent. BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen has eliminated the need for Web site ...

The Norwegian state broadcaster NRK has decided to set up its own BitTorrent tracker, and it also plans to offer content through this form of distribution, it said on Sunday. NRK started looking into ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The Pirate Bay shut down its BitTorrent tracker Nov. 17, ...

Convinced that a piracy crackdown is coming, one torrent tracking site has banned all users of Windows 10, and several other sites have considered doing the same. Unfortunately, these sites are also ...

Norway's largest BitTorrent tracker Norbits (norbits.net) with approximately 10,000 users, is currently under a DDoS attack launched from a group known as MORRADi, which is also speculating that it ...