Latest in BitTorrent

To mark the 10th season of the modern Doctor Who, BBC Worldwide is releasing a 10-episode box set in a BitTorrent Bundle. Spanning some 50 years and a dozen regenerations, Doctor Who is the longest running sci-fi series in history. In addition to what BBC describes as the best-of episodes, the bundle features…

EXCLUSIVE: David Cross’ feature comedy directorial Hits, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, hit theaters this weekend in 50 cities in a unique pay-what-you-want admission distribution model spearheaded by BitTorrent and Honora Pictures.  In addition, for two weeks only, consumers can download a…

BitTorrent has entered into an exclusive partnership with Marco Weber’s Rapid Eye Studios to identify, produce, and distribute original video content for the BitTorrent Bundle platform, to be known as BitTorrent Originals. The first-run video content will debut exclusively on the platform for 30-60 days reaching…

As part of Sony Picture Entertainment’s media blitz today to defend its decision of pulling The Interview after President Barack Obama called the move “a mistake,” SPE CEO told NPR that Sony “very much wanted to keep the picture in release" but "we don't have any takers, neither on the video demand side nor on the…

Microsoft’s Xbox One started selling today in thousands of Chinese stores, the first videogame console legally available in the country since 2000. Now comes the hard part, figuring out what games will actually pass muster with China’s stringent censorship rules on things like anti-authoritarian behavior, violence…

HBO‘s Game Of Thrones has made piracy history. According to TorrentFreak, more than 193,000 BitTorrent users shared a single copy of Sunday’s episode and about 1.5 million people downloaded it during the first 24 hours. The numbers are “unprecedented”, says TorrentFreak. The previous record was set last year, when…

DIY distribution platform VHX made a big move at SXSW this week when it opened its digital doors to the public, allowing any content creator to sell direct to fans at low cost. The start-up founded in 2011 by Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh had been in private beta for two years building a library of over 300 select…

The total for the Oscar-nominated documentary is three times bigger than the audience it has reached on YouTube, BitTorrent says in a blog post. The firm launched its bundle on December 31, in collaboration with Drafthouse Films. The Act Of Killing profiles the death squad leaders who committed mass murders in…

Madonna, VICE, and BitTorrent have unveiled secretprojectrevolution, the 17-minute short film Madonna has been teasing online for months. The multihyphenate, who most recently helmed 2011's W.E., co-directed the short with Steven Klein for the Art for Freedom project which launches September 24 at 2 PM ET. That’s when…

BitTorrent announced today that its Bundle project will hit its next phase on September 24, when approved creators can start building their own DIY distribution campaigns on the new publishing platform. The program, still in alpha testing, eventually will allow creators to charge or collect data from users using pay…

Showtime‘s Homeland became the latest victim of online piracy today when the show’s Season 3 premiere was leaked ahead of its September 29 debut. Over 100K users of file-sharing protocol BitTorrent have pirated the episode via various piracy sites within hours of its upload, reports TorrentFreak. Homeland producer 20th…

How’s this for an interesting defense? File-sharing site BitTorrent insists that a recent report that HBO’s Game Of Thrones broke records for illegal downloads on BitTorrent is false — because illegal downloading is “literally impossible” on the site. “The idea of a BitTorrent ‘Piracy Record’ is a complete…