BitTorrent

YouHaveDownloaded crawls BitTorrent sites, recording IP addresses of those downloading files and the files they're downloading. It turns out, if the record is correct, that two of the most energetic persecutors of downloaders are illegal downloaders themselves.

The publisher of the uTorrent file-sharing program has admitted to suffering a major security breach that allowed attackers to substitute downloads of its client for malware pushing fake antivirus software.

Your TV has come a long way from the days of rabbit-ear antennas and VHS players. No longer must you suffer the indignity of having to rewind a tape before returning it to Blockbuster, or of bribing a small child to hold the antenna in just the right position so you can enjoy fuzz-free viewing of Hawaii Five-O (the Jack Lord version, not the remake).

Let's say you have a set of videos on your hard drive that you want to play on your TV. Maybe they're home videos of your child's soccer team, or maybe you downloaded every single episode of Mad Men via BitTorrent--we're not here to judge. The point is, you want to watch these videos on the HDTV in your living room, not on the PC in your office. Here's how to do it quickly and easily.

Ubuntu 10.10 came out earlier this month, and early reviews of the operating system have been very favorable. Right now many thousands of people around the world are downloading it.

InTown Suites, a low-cost extended-stay living chain, had a problem with users of file sharing applications who were consuming all of its network bandwidth. Here’s how they solved the problem.

Pirated copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) on file-sharing sites contain malware, according to users who have downloaded the upgrade.

Pirated copies of the Windows 7 Release Candidate have leaked to file-sharing sites, according to several reports on the Internet and searches of BitTorrent trackers.

From Sweden, London, to Hollywood, protectors of copyrights are celebrating the conviction of the four men behind the world's most popular torrent tracker The Pirate Bay. But the war against piracy is far from over.

Facebook has ended its brief e-relationship with The Pirate Bay, the controversial BitTorrent search engine.

The Pirate Bay has added a feature to its Web site that links it with the popular social-networking site Facebook.

A second post-beta build of Windows 7 has leaked to file-sharing sites on the Web, according to searches at BitTorrent trackers.