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 ...

Popular Poland-based torrent meta-search site Torrentz.eu has removed its key functionality, effectively shutting down a major portal for finding pirated material on the web. According to a message on ...

Torrentz was a meta-search engine for torrents. Rather than host torrents itself, it acted as a search engine that checked other torrent sites to find what users were looking for. Acting in a similar ...

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 ...

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 ...