BitTorrent Blog
September Staff Picks: Exploration
Searching for truth in web’s black markets, shopping for kicks in the crowded streets of Tokyo, and chasing down summer’s last golden hours.
Project Maelstrom Adds Subtitle Support
One of the key features in Project Maelstrom is the ability to easily enjoy video and audio from torrents without having to wait for the entire download to complete. As you might expect, much of our effort is going to be focused on improving the media player and we’re happy to announce that one of…
Staff Picks: August 2015 Edition
From Fool’s Gold to Secret Stash: 30 days in 10 epic downloads. FOOL’S GOLD: DAY OFF FIRE Fool’s Gold DAY OFF started out five years ago in a parking lot in SoHo: a place for friends and label fam to celebrate music’s electric, unclassifiable underground. Today, DAY OFF spans five cities, a lineup featuring everyone from…
Mitigating DRDoS Vulnerability in the BitTorrent Ecosystem
Recently, Florian Adamsky presented a paper at a USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies. The paper reported on a study his team conducted on the possibility of exploiting BitTorrent protocols for Distributed Reflective Denial of Service Attacks (DRDoS). The risk being that an attacker could exploit a user unknowingly and have them direct traffic to a…
Bleep update: Forward Secrecy for Offline Messages
Our engineers have recently updated the Bleep core engine to address offline forward secrecy. We’ve discussed forward secrecy before, but this is a major overhaul to the fundamental way we package and transmit messages. It also introduces something that no one else has figured out how to do (as far as we know): providing forward…
Bundle Staff Picks: July 2015 Edition
From Mr. Carmack to MT. OSSA: 30 days in 10 downloads.
First Look: Nano Man – Utility Fog
Watch the first installment from documentary filmmaker Jeremy Kenyon Locker Corbell’s investigative series on UFO culture and all things ExtraOrdinary.
The BitTorrent Interview: Slash on “Live At The Roxy”
Earlier this week, Slash released Live At Roxy Theatre on BitTorrent Bundle. The 90+ minute HD video release captures Slash in his finest form, returning to the Sunset Strip and the legendary Roxy to perform for a sold out crowd. We caught up with Slash this week as he was out on his latest European…
Staff Picks: Best of Bundle, May 2015 Edition
Echoes in the valley, cosmic alchemy, and other true stories from the last 30 days in BitTorrent Bundle. Herewith, the best of May in ten downloadable objects. Untold: Echo in the Valley Deluxe Jack Dunning’s work under Untold spans the sprawling evolution of electronic, and foreshadows its future; the bruised echoes of another world. 2014’s…