53 posts and columns on BitTorrent
Meet YouTube’s Michael Bay
Freddie Wong’s blow-’em-ups are some of the most popular things on the world’s most popular video site. But he’d like you watch on his own site, too.Flingo Gets $7 Million for a Second-Screen Bet
Ashwin Navin used to run BitTorrent. Now he’s making another stab at video, this time with help from August Capital.News Byte
Yes We Khan: BitTorrent Adds an Educational App
BitTorrent has been working hard to counter the image that it’s solely a vehicle for swapping pirated movies and music, in part by adding an App Studio featuring content from selected publishers and developers. The latest addition should help the cause: An app providing access to the 2,000 or so instructional videos of the Khan Academy, the widely praised online education site created by Salman Khan.I/O Ventures Returns to Train Second Class of Start-Ups
With a swarm of start-up accelerators in the mold of Y Combinator all hitting the tech scene last year, it’s inevitable that some will fall by the wayside. But I/O Ventures, based in San Francisco’s Mission District, will be back for another season, co-founder Paul Bragiel tells NetworkEffect.How to Steal Any Movie You Want on the Web: Wall Street Gets a How-To Guide
It’s easier than ever to download any movie or TV show you want on the Web, for free. Just ask Rich Greenfield. Or better yet, let the Wall Street analyst show you, via a helpful four-minute video .How Much Copyright Infringement Can You Cram Into a Single Tweet?
If you run a user-generated content site, takedown notices from copyright holders are a fact of life. That even goes for Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters of text. The site received on the order of 300 takedown notices in the last month.No One Is Happy With the FCC Chairman's Speech, Except Broadband Investors
Everyone has something to say about today’s speech by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the subject of net neutrality. Having been blocked in the courts from imposing sanctions on Comcast for throttling users of BitTorrent, the commission has been spinning its wheels trying to find a way to nudge the broadband industry in a direction toward treating all Internet content fairly.Voices