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Scenes from BitTorrent’s Movember Challenge
When the hardworking men of BitTorrent aren’t crafting the latest updates to our products, they actually do some real good. It has been a longstanding tradition for the men at BitTorrent to take part in Movember, the annual month-long event that encourages growing and sporting a mustache for charity.
Exploring Forward Secrecy in Bleep
The BitTorrent Engineering team is constantly coming up with ways to make everyday online activities with a distributed infrastructure. One of the greatest challenges in this department has been the development of Bleep, our peer-to-peer chat client. How do you create all of the functions of a full-service chat client without relying on servers —…
Staff Picks: The Best of Bundle 2014
From Atari Teenage Riot to Thom Yorke: 20 essential downloads from 2014.
Bleep Now Supports Asynchronous Offline Messaging
Secure messaging client Bleep now allows for asynchronous chat. Communicating privately with your friends, coworkers and family isn’t easy as you may think. While sending a “private” message may seem secure, the reality is that message still lives on a server somewhere, remaining vulnerable to third-party infiltration. In the past year alone, we have seen…
Friday Download: Andrew Block
The New Orleans guitarist drops his debut solo album via BitTorrent Bundle.
Why Independent Music Needs Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is the way to keep independent artists on a level playing field with corporate music. The most remarkable thing about music in 2014 is its diversity. To follow the Top 40 is to just barely scratch the surface of what it means to listen. As Steve Albini noted in his keynote speech at…
OWSLA: EGGNOG vol 1
Just in time for the holidays: OWSLA’s first-ever compilation features 28 tracks from Skrillex’s label.
Asking Alexandria’s Live From Brixton and Beyond Bundle is Available Now
The UK metal act’s new BitTorrent Bundle features hours of live concert video, behind-the-scenes footage, music videos and extras. After a year of touring around the globe, Asking Alexandria is wrapping up 2014 with their debut live DVD release Live From Brixton and Beyond, available today on Sumerian Records on BitTorrent Bundle. Filmed at the…
Friday Download: John Perry Barlow
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) co-founder brings the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace as a BitTorrent Bundle. In this edition of Friday Download: a legendary proponent of open expression weighs in. John Perry Barlow’s words are cemented in American culture. His essays on Internet freedom have become required reading for law students around the…