You may have watched Saturday Night Live’s spoof on the woes experienced during the launch of Healthcare.gov on October 26, 2013. Always on the mark with social and political satire, SNL was quick to jump on the site’s problems as millions of Americans attempted to access it simultaneously. This bottleneck caused by high demand for…

Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the free web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for publishers. In this week’s Friday Download, we have The Metahack Interviews: A collection of interviews with some of the greatest thinkers and creators of our time. Avi Solomon shares the audio and text from his discussions…

How a New Orleans hip hop crew reinvented mixtape culture. It’s been said that the history of hip hop is told by the tape. It was cassettes, not records, that moved rap from a localized movement to music’s mainstream: traveling from parties, to trunks, to radio stations; crossing borders and sonic barriers as they exchanged…

Last month, we opened up BitTorrent Bundle to our first wave of Alpha publishers. (Welcome, guys!) Our goal is to build a durable (digital) platform for artists: a file format that becomes more valuable, each time it’s shared; a publishing architecture that lets you tell better stories. With BitTorrent Bundle, you can promote an album…

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. Noah T This Oklahoma alternative artist released three of his albums, including his first full-length Is Anybody Home?, free as a BitTorrent Bundle. It’s indie, ambient and sounds…