Torrenting, a rather simple method of sharing files between several computers over the internet. Unknown attackers are sabotaging popular TV and movie torrents by flooding them with IPv6 peers. The ...

The rise of P2P traffic as a percentage of total network use has left ISPs looking for ways to limit its impact on their capacity. Comcast, notably, has chosen to throttle some P2P traffic, but that ...

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, ...

ZeroNet, a serverless P2P network that uses Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent technology, may be the first real, usable prototype of a decentralized web. BitTorrent users can download files directly ...

When it comes to peer-to-peer file sharing protocols, BitTorrent is probably one of the best known. It requires a client implementing the program and a tracker to list files available to transfer and ...

While more and more organisations begin to move significant amounts of their data to cloud storage, torrent provider BitTorrent announced plans to create a cloudless peer-to-peer (P2P) storage ...

ZeroNet, a serverless P2P network that uses Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent technology, may be the first real, usable prototype of a decentralized web. BitTorrent users can download files directly ...