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BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol original designed by Bram Cohen in April 2001. Those who share files using BitTorrent can choose one of many clients and seed the file which is distributed in small parts. Any user with a BitTorrent client can locate a torrent file and choose to download the file. As they finish downloading parts they in turn share those parts with others in a distributed fashion.

BitTorrent receives a great deal of negative press as it is commonly associated with the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted material. This has resulted in Internet Service Providers using traffic shaping to slow down BitTorrent traffic.

While there is a great deal of illicit BitTorrent use, BitTorrent is also a preferred method for legitimately distributing large files. Development communities like Fedora, studios like Paramount and Fox as well as publishers like Electronic Arts use the BitTorrent protocol.  The distributed nature of the protocol eases network load of the main seeder and opens the door to more robust file sharing/distribution.

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  • We Went to the Daft Punk Album Premiere in Wee Waa, Australia, Pop. 2,100


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    The world premiere of the latest Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories was originally scheduled to take place on May 17 at a farm show in the rural Australian town of Wee Waa, population 2,100. The album leaked, but we ...
    5 days ago

  • Movie Studios Ask Google To Remove Links To Free Movie About Pirate Bay


    Consumerist — Authority Authority: 648
    The documentary TPB AFK is available for free via BitTorrent. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, movie and TV studios can send requests to Google and other search engines requesting the removal of links to illegally shared content to which it holds the copyright. But some studios have apparently been ...
    5 days ago

  • Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent


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    TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most shared movies on BitTorrent for the week ended May 19. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise). ‘Iron man 3′ takes the lead this week, followed by two newcomers: ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’, starring ...
    5 days ago

  • BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of All Upload Traffic, VPNs are Booming


    TorrentFreak — Authority Authority: 768
    Over the years we have been following various reports on changes in Internet traffic, specifically in relation to BitTorrent. One of the patterns that emerged with the rise of video streaming services is that BitTorrent is losing its share of total Internet traffic. This downward spiral is confirmed by the latest ...
    1 week ago

  • Are Cloud Tools Changing the Landscape of the Internet?


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    For more Mobile Commerce news related articles. The landscape of the web is endless, which is one of the amazing things about the new age we live in. New technologies are regularly being introduced and just as people begin using them in their everyday lives, something else is invented that trumps them. One of the ...
    1 week ago

  • Seriously Social News #21 | TweetDeck Drops Facebook, Adobe goes Subscription Only & YouTube Paid Channels


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    Welcome to Episode #21 of Seriously Social News for Saturday, 11th May 2013. In this week’s rather late episode, late due to me leaving my microphone behind yesterday, we cover TweetDeck losing Facebook, Adobe going completely subscription only, YouTube offering paid channels, SpiderOak & BitTorrent Sync and ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Torrented 3D-printed gun blueprints shows Internet can’t be silenced


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    In case you missed it, yesterday the Department of Defense went after the much-publicized “The Liberator” 3D-printed gun, which has been successfully tested and can be created entirely (with the exception of the firing pin) with ABS plastic and a 3D printer. According to the US Department of Defense Trade ...
    2 weeks ago

  • BitTorrent Bundle Uses P2P as a Marketing Tool: Peer-to-Paid


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    Many people associate BitTorrent with piracy, and with good reason. But the revolutionary protocol can also be used for legal purposes. For instance, it’s a cheap way to host and distribute large files. Now  the company behind the protocol and the first ever torrent client is also pushing for BitTorrent to ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Sync Alpha By BitTorrent Claims One Petabyte Of Shared Data


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    Two weeks after Sync Alpha has officially been launched, BitTorrent’s piece of software is proud to announce that people used it extensively, sharing and organizing an impressive amount of data – 1PB. If you don’t know yet what BitTorrent Sync is, feel free to check our previous article on the subject here . ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Sync Alpha By BitTorrent Claims One Petabyte Of Shared Data


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    Two weeks after Sync Alpha has officially been launched, BitTorrent’s piece of software is proud to announce that people used it extensively, sharing and organizing an impressive amount of data – 1PB. If you don’t know yet what BitTorrent Sync is, feel free to check our previous article on the subject here. In ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Dance star teams up with BitTorrent


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    It’s unusual for a musician of any type to team up with what is seen as one of the biggest advocates of piracy to release music but modern dance legend Kaskade and his label Ultra Music have done just that partnering with BitTorrent. ‘BitTorrent Bundles’ allow labels to release free music alongside paid ...
    2 weeks ago

  • BitTorrent goes legit with new ‘gated’ file format


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    A new Chrome extension lets Spotify users permanently download any song currently available from the streaming music service, a massive slip-up that could quickly upset record labels and music publishers. As noted by Dutch website  Tweakers , the Downloadify tool appears to take advantage of nonexistent encryption ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Want uTorrent In Ubuntu? You May Have To Settle For qBittorrent Instead


    Liberian Geek — Authority Authority: 136
    If you know anything about bittorrent and how to download movies and pirated software online, then you may have probably heard of uTorrent. It’s one of the most popular bittorrent clients available and mostly supported on Windows and Mac OS X systems. For Linux, including Ubuntu, it’s still in beta since it was ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Netflix A ‘Piracy Killer’? BitTorrent Takes Issue


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    Netflix as “piracy killer” may make sense on the surface, but BitTorrent has taken exception to some implications from comments made by company representatives last week connecting BitTorrent with piracy. The comments came in a Stuff interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos . When asked what ...
    2 weeks ago

  • “Bundle” By BitTorrent: A Place Where Peer-To-Peer And Legitimacy Work Together


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    BitTorrent Inc. is once again proving that its intentions to legitimize peer-to-peer are genuine. Yesterday, the company announced the workings on a brand new project called “BitTorrent Bundle”, a place for people to access a completely changed .torrent format (one that includes free content), and for content ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Game Developers Playing Pirates; Point Taken! The Story Of The “Pirated” Game Dev Tycoon


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    Greenheart Games is an independent game developing company, famous for its series of the popular game named Dev Tycoon. Not long ago, GG thought it would be funny, and also make a valid point, to upload on BitTorrent a tweaked version of their latest game (Game Dev Tycoon), masked as a “cracked” torrent especially ...
    2 weeks ago

  • BitTorrent Lets Artists “Share” Behind a Paywall


    TorrentFreak — Authority Authority: 768
    Following in the footsteps of FrostWire and Vodo , BitTorrent Inc. launched an artist promotion program a few years ago. The idea is to let artists share their work for free, exposing it to millions of BitTorrent users all around the world. Thanks to the massive user base of over 170 million users the program ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Are courts wising up to BitTorrent copyright trolls?


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    BitTorrent copyright trolling continues despite Prenda Law’s self-implosion. But there is hope that courts are coming to their senses. Earlier this week Judge Wright issued a Hulk smash order lambasting the tactics of notorious copyright troll Prenda Law and finding, among other things, that the firms’ ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent


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    TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most shared movies on BitTorrent for the week ended May 5. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise). Jason Statham’s new adventure takes the first place this week with the action movie ‘Parker’. Following ...
    2 weeks ago

  • BitTorrent Shows New Way For Artists To Make Money Off Their Music


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    BitTorrent Inc. is much maligned for its association with global content piracy. For the record, BitTorrent is a legit company which specializes in making data and content move freely over the internet using the p2p protocol that it has developed. However, BitTorrent is much more than this and can definitely be used ...
    2 weeks ago

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