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Friday Download: Barracks
The New Zealand act brings their debut LP and new music video to BitTorrent Bundle. Barracks’ 2012 debut, We Are the Lions EP captured a talented band on the rise, eager to contribute to their local hardcore scene. By supporting fan zines, pressing their own merch, and promoting DIY shows, Barracks was discovered by a…

Where Creativity Thrives: BitTorrent 2014 User Study
BitTorrent users are 170% more likely to buy music versus average Internet users. Last year, we launched an alpha project called BitTorrent Bundle. Our goal was to build a sustainable ecosystem for the Internet’s creative projects. A place where published stories could be big, messy, and multimedia. A place where artists and fans could connect…

Diplo Brings F10rida to BitTorrent Bundle
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…

Privacy Is Not Just a Choice. It’s a Responsibility.
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 Other P2P Music Revolution
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.

Friday Download: Korengal
“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…

10th Anniversary: Innovation Timeline
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…

Alice In Chains Debut Phantom Limb Music Video on BitTorrent Bundle
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…

Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Reaches 1 Million Downloads
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.

Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes