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The artist’s first album is the first open Bundle paygate project. “I was making things I’d never heard before, things I could just imagine.” Diplo began work on his first album ten years ago, between Philadelphia and Florida, between jobs, after hours, on the bus, and inside his head. Florida, released in 2004 on Big…

There’s a well-known anecdote that has been used to describe the gradual shifting of our world, from the politics of war to climate change: the boiling frog. The premise is simple: drop a jumpy frog into a boiling pot of water, and it will jump out immediately; slowly turn up the heat on the cold…

The state of EDM, in the words of the artists and influencers shaping the industry. A version of this post originally ran in EDM.com on November 9, 2014.

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” —Winston Churchill In this edition of Friday Download: a legendary war journalist tells his story on BitTorrent Bundle. There are few journalists left like Sebastian Junger; willing to put their life…

Ten years ago, BitTorrent, Inc. was formed to build a business harnessing the power of the BitTorrent protocol. Since then, we as a company have created a culture of innovation that looks outside the boundaries of what the Internet is now and focuses on what the Internet will be next.  In continued celebration of our…

The rock legends go direct-to-fan for the release of their latest Roboshobo-directed video premiere. Alice In Chains helped define one of the most influential eras of modern rock music. Emerging from the storied Seattle music scene, the band dominated airwaves and record charts, and remain one of the predominant alternative-rock bands in existence. Their most…

On Friday, Thom Yorke released an experiment: a new album called Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes; a new way of distributing music via BitTorrent Bundle. Today, that project has been downloaded more than 1 million times; including both free downloads of the single and video, and paid downloads of the full album.

A step-by-step guide to the new album by Thom Yorke. Read more about the project here. Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes is a new album from Thom Yorke. It is the artist’s first solo record in eight years. It is a project conceived of in conversation with, and collaboration with, fans. It is music and video and…

Every couple of months, BitTorrent’s staff takes two days to come up with an innovative project that embraces the company’s goals — an event called the Palooza. Here’s the results of what happened this week. In a longstanding tradition at BitTorrent, the company came together for a two-day hackathon, also known as a Palooza. The…