Musician Moby Releases His Latest Album As A BitTorrent Bundle Download

Musician Moby Releases His Latest Album As A BitTorrent Bundle Download

The record labels and publishers want you to believe that downloading music illegally will hurt the artists and the industry as a whole, but yet there are plenty of musicians out there who are more than happy to release their music on the internet for free. Moby is one of them and with his latest album release, his 11th studio album “Innocents”, he has decided to forgo the traditional distribution channels and has instead released the album as a BitTorrent Bundle, allowing anyone to download the album for free. The bundle will consist of a few songs, and additional content can be unlocked via various methods, such as liking the artist’s page on Facebook, or by donating. (more…)

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    BitTorrent traffic on the downswing in the US for the first time

    For the first time, BitTorrent traffic has declined in the United States, a trend that is said to be caused by more available legal alternatives, such as Netflix, Amazon Instant Prime, and similar streaming and digital-download services. On the flip side, torrenting has continued to increase in Europe, and the most likely reason is similar, […]

    GTA V PC Torrent strikes unlucky thieves in the wild

    The PC version of Grand Theft Auto 5 is currently in production. There is no final version out in the wild, nor is there a way for you to download this game for the PC in any way at all – it simply does not exist. That fact hasn’t stopped a seemingly large amount of […]

    BitTorrent’s Taking Out Pro-Torrenting Billboards and They’re Awesome

    BitTorrent's Taking Out Pro-Torrenting Billboards and They're Awesome

    "Torrenting" is kind of a dirty word. It makes you think piracy, doesn’t it? Well it shouldn’t. Torrenting isn’t illegal. It’s not even morally ambiguous. It’s just a way to send data, and it’s awesome. Those are the points BitTorrent’s trying to drive home with its rad new ad campaign.

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    BitTorrent Chat Looks To Make Instant Messaging More Secure

    BitTorrent Chat Looks To Make Instant Messaging More Secure

    We know how important your messages with your wife, husband or significant other is, especially when they involve such important things as deciding what to do about dinner as well as reminding them to pick up milk on the way home. Keeping them personal and private is also extremely important, which is why BitTorrent is announcing its latest instant messing service called BitTorrent Chat. (more…)

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    BitTorrent Thinks It Can Make Your Online Chat Secure

    BitTorrent Thinks It Can Make Your Online Chat Secure

    The fallout from the NSA spying scandal has left many people unsure about what they should and shouldn’t share across the tubes. But now BitTorrent has an answer: an instant-message chat client that uses decentralized data transfer to keep your communications safe.

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    BitTorrent teases decentralized chat client in the wake of security breaches

    DNP BitTorrent teases decentralized chat client in the wake of security breaches

    Today, BitTorrent announced it’s building a private instant messaging client for our post-PRISM world. The firm told CNET that BitTorrent Chat should function like the company’s other peer-to-peer services, using a form of torrenting’s decentralized technology-approach that’s been adapted for real-time communications. And while compatibility with other IM protocols is expected in the future, for now it’s exclusive to BitTorrent account holders. You can even apply for an invite into the pre-alpha at the BitTorrent Labs site — if you’re so inclined, that is.

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    BitTorrent Chat promises encrypted P2P chat away from NSA prying

    BitTorrent has revealed BitTorrent Chat, its secure take on instant messaging using the peer-to-peer technologies that made it notorious for file-sharing so as to escape the eyes of the NSA. Described as “a pre-Alpha experiment in server-less messaging” the new chat client promises to shuttle conversations across an encrypted, peer-to-peer network rather than routing them […]

    10 Common Tech Questions (and Their High Tech Explanations)

    10 Common Tech Questions (and Their High Tech Explanations)

    There are certain problems we all deal with every day, but don’t know why. Why do I need to keep resetting my router? Do I have a virus? What happens when a site I use gets "hacked?" Whether you’re the tech-savvy friend that’s always answering these questions or the friend doing the asking, here are the answers to the most common conundrums.

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    BitTorrent and uTorrent removed from Google piracy search filter, return to autocomplete

    Over the years, Google has made a lot of changes to its search engine algorithms that control what content is returned for specific search terms. Google long ago implementing changes to its search results to block some access to content that had to do with digital piracy. Part of that move was to block certain […]