Author Archives: Eric Klinker

100 Million and Growing!

January 3, 2011 – 9:06 am

Today, we are excited to share a significant milestone for the BitTorrent team: 100 million active monthly users. This number represents a combined total of all BitTorrent Mainline and µTorrent software clients, from people like you all around the world. On behalf of the BT team, thank you for being a part of our astounding [...]

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BitTorrent Adds Chief Strategist, Executive Vice President of Marketing

November 10, 2010 – 8:00 am

For the past several months, the expansion of apps and delivering quality content to our community has been a couple of our top priorities. Our goal is to create a platform where content creators can deliver their artistic works and build relationships with fans while giving our users access to unique content. Bridging the digital [...]

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Announcing Artist Pilot Program and New Apps

September 27, 2010 – 9:07 am

Today is the first day of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, and we have a couple of exciting announcements to share. First, if you check your new apps feature (recently released in the new BitTorrent Mainline client and the µTorrent beta), you’ll find two cool new apps. The first brings the world-famous TEDTalks directly to you, [...]

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Net Neutrality is Not Decided

August 13, 2010 – 4:27 pm

Well. Interesting week. Google and Verizon claimed to have solved the Net Neutrality debate. But on whose behalf? True, these two iconic Internet brands deserve a seat at the table in determining the health and regulations of our global network’s backbone. Yet ultimately any compromises must be struck by the industry at large – with [...]

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Broadband Measurement Workshop

August 3, 2010 – 8:40 am

BitTorrent was recently invited by the FCC to participate in a series of public workshops on broadband measurement. The most recent workshop was held last Wednesday and brought the group up to speed on the status of the various vendors of technology and equipment to be used. This effort is similar to efforts in the UK [...]

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BitTorrent Welcomes New VP of User Experience

June 25, 2010 – 3:43 pm

Over the last several months the BitTorrent and µTorrent clients have evolved a lot. We have introduced Apps for µTorrent, streaming and µTorrent Web through µTorrent Labs, as ways to extend the functionality of the client – and there’s much more coming. As part of that continued evolution we have brought on David Gómez-Rosado as the [...]

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BITAG Brings Hope to Net Neutrality Debate

June 11, 2010 – 9:38 am

This week several tech companies and ISPs announced that they would form the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) as a way to educate lawmakers on broadband management processes. The group said its mission is to “bring together engineers and other similar technical experts to develop consensus on broadband network management practices or other related technical [...]

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Change can be difficult sometimes

June 9, 2010 – 12:34 pm

When we launched µTP and µTorrent v2.0 in February, we knew we had a long road ahead of us. Three months and three minor revisions later, we’ve seen great progress and have had a healthy dialogue across many constituents. We don’t need to document the change log here, but it might serve to explore our expectations around the difficult nature of transformative change on the Internet.

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The impact of the ‘third way’ on the information highway

May 6, 2010 – 10:56 pm

“One of the Internet’s greatest strengths–its unprecedented power to foster technological, economic, and social innovation–stems in significant part from the absence of any central controlling authority, either public or private. The FCC’s role, therefore should not involve regulating the Internet itself.” – FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, May 6, 2010 This week’s announcement from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski [...]

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The day Net Neutrality died?

April 6, 2010 – 4:18 pm

Well probably not. At least hopefully not. As Louis D. Brandeis remarked: “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. “ And so it remains…  With today’s decision from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on [...]

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