Google recently disabled Autocomplete and Instant search features for our trademarked company and product names, including BitTorrent, µTorrent, and torrent. We’ve heard a lot of speculation about this move and we feel it’s important for us to provide some perspective and clarity on this situation. BitTorrent is a technology company that builds software and standards…
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This morning from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we are delighted to announce a formal partnership with Taiwan’s renowned Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) (link to ITRI), one of the world’s leading high-tech research and development institutes, to define and deploy new standards for consumer electronics device manufacturers. Together with ITRI, we will…
The BitTorrent team is happy to welcome Dr. James Lee as a senior advisor to the company. He will be working with us on device initiatives in the BitTorrent ecosystem Learn more about Dr. Lee and his role here.
For all you Pioneer One fans anxiously awaiting the next episode in the made for BitTorrent series, today is the day. Pioneer One Episode 2 is here! We’ve partnered with our friends at VODO again to bring you this award-winning sci-fi drama for free, which is in part to your generous donations along with sponsorship…
Today we are releasing two new apps to enhance your BitTorrent and μTorrent experience, and allow you to do things not before possible. As with past apps, our goal is to continue to improve the user experience by adding new functionality that is simple and user friendly. The first is a VLC player app, which…
Just a heads up that the BitTorrent team will be at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon and Conference. The schedule of events is below, so if you’re at the show please stop by and say hello. We’ll be talking about our latest experiments in connecting content creators and consumers, including case studies on the Pioneer One,…
Over the past few months we have worked with several indie artists to distribute their work via BitTorrent. As a company, this is something that we are passionate about, because we think there is great potential for artists to leverage the distribution economics of BitTorrent to reach a large and engaged audience to not only…
Yesterday, we were alerted to a DLL vulnerability in Microsoft Windows reportedly affecting up to 200 consumer software applications. Subsequently, attack code targeting the μTorrent client was posted to a third-party website, and while thus far, no attacks have been reported to us, we will release a new build of our μTorrent software today. The…
Last week in Seoul, Korea the first ever Shared Film Festival occurred. The event was organized by Creative Commons Asia; HyoJung Sun, a shared culture activist and researcher; and myself (Jamie King), founder of VODO (a BitTorrent partner). It brought together filmmakers from all over the world, including Brett Gaylor of RIP! and others who’ve shared their…