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Staff Picks: Kevin Blaine
Staff Picks is dedicated to surfacing the best music, film, and art downloads on the Internet; digitally handmade by BitTorrent Publishers. Read on for this week’s finds. In this week’s Staff Picks: new music from Kevin Blaine – songwriter, musician, and pug-lover. Kevin has been writing songs since the age of 13, when his godfather…

Friday Download: Tourist – Placid Acid
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for Publishers In this week’s Friday Download: The debut EP from Will Phillips, a London-based producer known as Tourist. Formerly, Phillips went by the moniker Little Loud, and grew a following by creating remixes for the talented faces…

How Stuff Gets Made: BitTorrent’s December Hackathon
On Monday, we’ll begin another round of our bi-monthly Palooza (BitTorrent’s two day hackathon). So, we decided to take some time to reflect on the last one we had. If you’ve been keeping up with us, you already know that Palooza is the foundation to BitTorrent’s bottom-up innovation. It’s where BitTorrent Sync and BitTorrent Chat…

Curren$y to release The Drive In Theatre as a BitTorrent Bundle on Jet-Life.com
On February 14, the first full length follow up to New Jet City will be ready for download. Introducing the new Jet-Life.com. Curren$y raps about real life. He releases music directly to fans. He puts out mixtapes when he feels like it. He makes mixtapes that aren’t: part video, part song, part flyer. His crew…

Staff Picks: Duologue – Song and Dance
Staff Picks is dedicated to surfacing the best music, film, and art downloads on the Internet; digitally handmade by BitTorrent Publishers. Read on for this week’s finds Photo via duologuemusic.com In this week’s Staff Picks: London’s five piece assemble Duologue and their acclaimed debut album, Song and Dance. Song and Dance achieves a sonic complexity…

Tech Talks: Writing High-Performance Software
Originally posted on our engineering blog. BitTorrent Tech Talks are one-hour sessions dedicated to the stuff that keeps us busy / keeps us up at night / keeps us coding. From time to time, we post them here. Because sharing. In this edition of Tech Talks: BitTorrent’s Chief Architect Arvid Norberg describes how modern computers…

Friday Download: Kalanda
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for Publishers In this week’s Friday download: a unique documentary film about Donsoya, the knowledge of initiated hunters in Burkina Faso. Kalanda is directed by Lorenzo Ferrarini, an anthropologist based in Manchester UK, who has done extensive research…

Academic Torrents Makes Datasets and Papers Available via BitTorrent
Here are BitTorrent, we believe that science should be open and accessible to all. Which is why we were excited to see Academic Torrents in the wild: A public library of large scientific data sets delivered by BitTorrent to anyone, anywhere. If you’re a researcher, love data, or have a child-like wonder about the world…

Staff Picks: 2014 GRAMMY Nominated Artists Pretty Lights and Kaskade
Last night, 28.5 million people tuned in to the 2014 GRAMMY awards to watch 33 couples wed-on-air, Daft Punk silently accept both Record and Album of the Year, and The Beatles reunite and perform for the first time in five years. We also tuned in because Beyonce. In honor of the largest celebration of music…