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Data is the New Hustle and Other Highlights from SF MusicTech XI
On Tuesday, October 9th, our team attended the 11th SF MusicTech Summit conference at Hotel Kabuki in Japantown. We started the morning off with the Artist Tools panel featuring our Executive Director of Marketing, Matt Mason.
Access µTorrent Remote on Your iPhone
A lot of you have been asking if there will be a native app for µTorrent on iOS and while we haven’t gotten to that just yet, we do have a way for you to easily receive the benefits of µTorrent Remote right from your iPhone or iPad. Think of it as anywhere access to µTorrent,…
Weekly Roundup + The Three Best Free Things on the Internet
This week, we said “hi” to October. We took an outsider artist’s practice of gifting CDRs, and made it digital by working with Chicago artist Willis Earl Beal to create a new BitTorrent Bundle: a 5-track EP featuring music from his upcoming film Principles of a Protagonist. (Get it here.) We also introduced the world to Aaron Cohen,…
Meet Our Team: Aaron Cohen
Sure, you love using BitTorrent (or the tiny-yet-mighty client, µTorrent) but how much do you know about the people behind the product? We kicked this feature off one month ago and today, we’re talking to a team member who is working on a product that’s going to make a major impact in the months to…
What’s New Plus Highlights from the Internet Archive for the Week of 9/24/12
We’re back with another weekly recap. It’s been an eventful week, to say the least. If you haven’t yet read more about how you can help with the Internet Radio Fairness Act, read this short post to get the details. We also sat down with the guy who invented the BitTorrent protocol (i.e. the reason…
Artists We Love: Free New Music from Willis Earl Beal
Chicago native Willis Earl Beal started out as a street performer. Like most of us, he wanted to be heard. Unlike most of us, he left a trail of homemade novels, art and CD-Rs across America. And last year, his practice of gifting handmade music got him an audience; the cover of Found magazine, a feature in…
Meet Our Team: Bram Cohen
Sure, you love using BitTorrent (or the tiny-yet-mighty client, µTorrent) but how much do you know about the people behind the product? In today’s installment of Meet Our Team, we bring you Bram Cohen – an everyday guy who loves almond bark (and shaved just for this occasion) and spends his time inventing things: like…
Support the Internet Radio Fairness Act
This past Friday, lawmakers introduced the Internet Radio Fairness Act to the House of Representatives. This bill calls for a shift from the crippling “willing buyer, willing seller” standard of royalty rates, which currently apply to online music services including Pandora and iHeartRadio, to a reasonable calculation that is used for more traditional formats including…
Meet Our Team: Teresa Hernandez
Sure, you love using BitTorrent (or the tiny-yet-mighty client, µTorrent) but how much do you know about the people behind the product? We kicked things off with Adam and while we should’ve followed up this past Thursday, we decided to show the world how the BitTorrent ecosystem powers millions of legitimate music downloads. If you…
Too Legit
On September 17th, Musicmetric reported 405 million downloads during the first six months of 2012. In this same period of time, BitTorrent worked with artists to deliver 124,191,863 licensed, legal music downloads; helping emerging and established creators monetize their content through our ecosystem. Click on the image above or here to view a day’s worth of…