Hypothetical scenario:  You have a (completely healthy) obsession with a delightful, animated open-source film.  For the purposes of this blog post, we’ll call this film “Big Buck Bunny”. Let’s say you’ve downloaded the torrent and want to load it on to your iPad so that you can watch that movie anywhere. What do you do? …

What you’re looking at is a 24-hour period of BitTorrent usage worldwide. This short movie illustrates over 60 million BitTorrent client check-ins (more and more of you are joining us every day – so we’ll be able to bring you an even brighter one soon), from across the planet, for a single day in January, 2011….

What does 24 hours of people checking in on BitTorrent and µTorrent look like? See the video above – this represents client check-ins with our servers from the 60 million torrent clients we had out there in January, last year (we’re growing our user base, day by day – so we’ll be able to bring…

How does peer-to-peer file-sharing advance an artist’s career? Believe it or not, “free” really is associated with some of the best things in life. Read on (thanks, Storify) to find out how DJ Pretty Lights attained a whole new level of profit, success, and exposure for his music by partnering with BitTorrent. [View the story…

In case you missed it, we chatted with Counting Crows’ frontman Adam Duritz for over 3 hours last week. With 70+ questions to sift through and tons of interaction from the band and fans, you better believe there was a lot to talk about. Read on to discover some of the highlights – courtesy of…