Expensive legal battles have caused TorrentSpy, the search engine for the BitTorrent file-sharing service, to shut down. A note on the home page of TorrentSpy’s Web site said it is shutting down “not ...

After a lengthy legal battle, an American judge has ordered Richmond, B.C.'s Isohunt, one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines on the Internet, to remove all infringing content from its ...

Weeks after search engine Kickass Torrents was shut down following the arrest of alleged founder Artem Vaulin in Poland, another major player Torrentz.eu shut its portals on Friday, a media report ...

In a blow to the entertainment industry, a U.K. jury on Friday acquitted the operator of a popular BitTorrent search engine that enabled people to download music. Alan Ellis, 26, was charged with ...

One of the most popular engines for searching for movies and music distributed via BitTorrent has been ordered to remove links to illegally shared content, marking a victory for the entertainment ...

If you're downloading something that the creator has made available on BitTorrent, you'll probably find a link to download the torrent somewhere on their site—for example, the Linux distribution ...

Will 2016 go down in history as the year that torrenting ended? It's starting to look that way, as more and more sites cease operation. Last month, it was KickassTorrents that got the boot. Up next, ...

A Vancouver resident has agreed to shut down his popular downloading website and pay a $110-million fine after settling a long legal fight with the Motion Picture Association of America. Gary Fung ran ...

Gary Fung, the Vancouver-based founder of the now-defunct BitTorrent search engine isoHunt, has settled his second and final lawsuit with the music industry. The $66-million settlement with the record ...