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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…

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 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…

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…

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…

The acclaimed electronic artist on freeing music by making music free. Gramatik grew up glued to his stereo: a kid in Slovenia raised on R&B and jazz. By 13, he was building his own tracks; mixing beats on an old PC. His sound grew up. And it grew bigger and broader than electronic music’s traditional…

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: an indie film about modern life. Living Life or Waiting to Die is a comedic story about two roommates whose daily routines turn into daily nightmares. It’s about two guys who…

New documentary Bundle features never-before-seen footage from the film by Oscar-nominated director Lucy Walker. The Crash Reel is the true story of Kevin Pearce, a U.S. champion snowboarder. In 2010, Shaun White ended up on the top of the Olympic podium. Kevin, his long-time friend and rival, ended up in a coma; the result of…

The Oscar-nominated BitTorrent Bundle film inspires a global movement. The Act of Killing addresses an act of genocide largely unknown in the West, and unacknowledged at home, in Indonesia. Our collective amnesia is the true legacy of dictatorship. This film challenges a regime to remember a 1965 massacre. What happens next is unforgettable.