The story "Bittorrent maker sets up search" looked promising for three whole seconds. The first two sentences mention that there's now a search tool for bittorrent files but then the story shifts into an explanation of how bittorrent is useful for copyright infringement purposes, without even implying that it is used for anything legal.
It even tries to make the search engine look bad:
The search tool does not currently filter out copyrighted files.
Of course it doesn't. I wonder if BBC Technology have anyone on their staff who could let us all know how it would be possible to filter out 'copyrighted' files. I wonder if they know that there's no legal problem with handing out copies of files if the owner/creator has given their express permission to do so. Bittorrent use is massively widespread, eating a huge chunk of Internet traffic. Some of this use is copying of files which shouldn't (legally) be copied without the permission of the copyright holder.
The Internet provides many, many ways to distribute files. In ye olden days, we had to make do with Gopher, which wasn't as fast as bittorrent. Gradually Gopher was forgotten about as people either simply stuck files on their web sites or linked to where they'd made them available for FTP download.
The BBC needs to learn, quickly, that bittorrent is not a 'piracy' tool (they also need to learn the difference between copyright infringement and armed robbery), rather it is a download accelerator and nothing else.
I'm starting to think it's time to sack the entire BBC technology reporting team and hire some staff who are less hard of thinking.