This week, we packed our bags for Vegas. NAB Show is where the world’s broadcasters, producers, video pros, and and digital groups come together to talk about what’s next for media.
So, then, what is next?
Eric Klinker, our CEO, sat down with thought-leaders from Forrester, IBM, Akamai, and Aspera to talk about broadcast’s digital disruption. Here’s the deal – from the panel, and from the floor. Continue reading →
Well, does it? We hear this question all the time. We hear we’ve killed film, the radio star, and the content industry. We hear we’re the web’s dark matter, and the Internet’s seedy underbelly.
From left to right: Tim Ferriss and BitTorrent’s CEO, Eric Klinker
Last week, we released an exclusive first look at Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Chef to help the author fight the Barnes & Noble boycott. By the end of today, Tim’s BitTorrent Bundle will have been downloaded over 300,000 times. The book’s Amazon page will have received an additional 85,000 visitors. And users like you will have made history: the first BitTorrent bestseller.
Today we are really excited to announce that the Internet Archive is making over one million pieces of archived content available to the world via BitTorrent.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of “universal access to all knowledge.” They offer permanent storage of and free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and over two million public-domain books. Today all of the archives’ live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots of books, and all new Community uploads will be available as torrent files.
We’ve had a lot of success in the last few years putting great content in front of our audiences. Our Featured Content experiments with musicians, filmmakers, game developers and authors have resulted in tens of millions of downloads, not to mention record deals, sold-out movie theaters, world tours and all kinds of ancillary revenue generated for the creators we’ve partnered with. But that’s no longer enough. We believe we can make digital distribution even more viable for creators and fans. So, beginning now, we’ll be testing new ways to drive profitability for creators and publishers, while delivering even more meaningful media experiences for users.
Today we’re partnering with Fame House to launch a BitTorrent Bundle from hip-hop legend DJ Shadow. But it’s more than that – it’s also a new idea that could revolutionize the content business. Not only does the BitTorrent Bundle contain exclusive video, artwork and tracks from DJ Shadow’s new project Hidden Transmissions From The MPC Era (1992-1996); a celebration of the vintage years which made Shadow world-famous. It’s also a glimpse into the future of creativity. This is the first BitTorrent Bundle to feature a software package offer from one of our media partners, in what promises to be a groundbreaking experiment. Download it here.
