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Introducing BitTorrent Bundle: Pioneering Decentralized Digital Distribution & Marketing

05.14.13 @ 9:00AM Tags : bittorrent, bundle, distribution, interview, interviews, marketing, piracy, selfdistribution, selfpromotion, torrent

BitTorrent, a tech company whose name is commonly and incorrectly associated with pirating, has been running a legitimate business since 2004 with over 2 million pieces of licensed content in the BitTorrent download manager, which serves more than 170 million people monthly. The company is now beginning to launch a new endeavor to empower those in the content creation business. BitTorrent Bundle provide a way for creators large and small to have all the advantages of the peer-to-peer protocol while also maintaining control over their content by creating ‘gates’ that must be unlocked by the consumer. We had a chance to chat with Matt Mason, VP of Marketing at BitTorrent, who is very impassioned about what this new publishing platform could potentially mean for creators. Read on for the interview and get the full scoop: More »

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Free Peer-To-Peer Video Streaming is Here with BitTorrent Live, Creator Wants to 'Kill Off Television'

03.13.13 @ 10:25AM Tags : bittorrent, bittorrentlive, streaming

Internet video streaming as we know it is about to change. Delivering video online is a terribly inefficient process, and Bram Cohen, the creator of the BitTorrent protocol, has figured out a way to do it better. While BitTorrent often gets a bad rap thanks to its links to piracy, it’s still one of the least bandwidth intensive ways to share files with other people. Now the company is introducing what they are calling BitTorrent Live, which works in a similar way to the original BitTorrent protocol, but is instead focused on delivering streaming video. By using the bandwidth of the users, BitTorrent is able to take the load off of the original broadcaster, making it efficient for anyone to host a streaming video. More »

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Need to Move a Mountain of Data? Send Files Up to 1 Terabyte for Free with SoShare

02.18.13 @ 5:53PM Tags : bittorrent, download, sharing

What if you needed to share hundreds of Gigabytes (or even Terabytes) with a partner to finish a project, but you’ve reached the limits on the sharing service you already use? Well, that’s where SoShare comes in. The new service is utilizing the power of BitTorrent to share an unlimited amount of data with as many users as you want — up to 1 Terabyte per transfer — and the best part of all: it’s 100% completely free. Sound too good to be true? Read on for more about the service. More »

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Internet Piracy vs. Copyright Law: Watch 'The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard'

02.15.13 @ 6:47PM Tags : awayfromkeyboard, bittorrent, drm, internet, piracy, thepiratebay, tpbafk, vhx, watch, youtube

We recently mentioned the documentary TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay — Away From Keyboard as part of VHX’s drive to make strong independent work available direct-to-audience. TPB AFK is a documentary that follows three Pirate Bay co-founders as they face prosecution for aiding piracy on a massive scale (or, in other words, founding The Pirate Bay). Released for free on BitTorrent as well as on YouTube, the film raises powerful questions about piracy, intellectual property law, and an ungoverned internet, and gives us a glimpse into the lives of a few individuals who created a web portal that is still going strong even today. Given that law is so much slower to change than the internet, is the problem with the pirates, or with anti-piracy laws that may need some updating? Watch the entire 82 minute film below. More »

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Radiohead's First Concert Film in 15 Years is Fan-made and Free

09.4.10 @ 5:16PM Tags : bittorrent, concert, distribution, free, music, pr, radiohead

The best live show I’ve ever seen was Radiohead performing at All Points West just outside NYC here in 2008 (though this recent Flaming Lips show was pretty incredible too). Radiohead’s 25-song, two-encore set sounded amazing, the weather was great, and, well… it was Radiohead. I bring this up because the band, who famously self-released In Rainbows with a “pay what you want” model to great success, has just lent their music to a crowdsourced Czech concert film made up of 50 different amateur camera angles. Radiohead has much greater ownership of their music than most bands (they left their former label EMI because they wanted rights to the master recordings), and with ownership comes the ability to do something like this — just because they want to. In fact, this fan-filmed show — which has the same backdrop and a similar setlist to the show I witnessed — is their first concert film since 1995. And not only is it free, but the highest quality version is available not through iTunes or Amazon, but BitTorrent. More »