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 ...

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 ...

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 ...