It’s not easy. You can try a complicated FTP service. Or pay big fees for a file sharing or cloud service. Or dramatically reduce the size, quality or length of your creation to send via email or social networks.

Today, we are very excited to preview an entirely new alpha software client – built from the ground up by the same engineers who develop BitTorrent and µTorrent. It’s fast, free, and totally unlimited. No limits on the file size or the number of files, or even the number of recipients. No hidden fees. Just you, your friends, and your media.

It doesn’t yet have a name (during the alpha, we’re calling it “Share”), and it is available for immediate download here.

Share’s power, speed and “unlimited” philosophy are possible thanks to the ultra-efficient BitTorrent protocol. Instead of requiring users to store files in remote data centers, Share users seed files from their own computer and recipients may download them directly. Once downloaded, a recipient also seeds a file. If multiple members of a group actively seed files, download speeds are dramatically increased thanks to the distributed nature of the sharing protocol. To ensure quality of service and file availability, we will also initially host and remotely seed a file for a limited time.

Features:

• No Limits: With no limits on number of sends, file size/quality, or number of recipients, users may send HD videos, high-res photo collections, and other oversized files – with no fees.

• Ultra Fast Downloads: Share is built on top of an innovative file-sharing technology that is already used by over 100 million people every month. Friends may now download the biggest files without the endless wait.

• Private: Choose exactly who may access shared files. Set up groups to share with friends, family and co-workers, or just send a file to one person.

• Social and Fun: Friends may comment on the files in real-time. Share is interactive, conversational and social.

“Share is the culmination of over a year’s research into personal media sharing. We have always known that BitTorrent is one of the fastest ways to send or receive a large file. With today’s consumer cameras/video recorders producing stunning quality, traditional media sharing requires concessions,” said Shahi Ghanem, our chief strategist. “With Share, you don’t have to crop photos, reduce resolutions or cut video length to easily share something with your friends, family and colleagues. It’s much faster than traditional ‘cloud’ solutions and easy for anyone.”

Share can trace its origins back to the BitTorrent Mainline ‘Project Chrysalis’ experimental software released last May. Continued Ghanem, “We believed personal media sharing would be an ideal extension to our existing µTorrent and BitTorrent software. After evaluating the user response and feedback, we realized we had the right goal, but users identified challenges with the implementation. Ultimately, we took what we learned and started again from scratch. Share was born.”

Share will also be integrated into all BitTorrent and µTorrent software clients following alpha testing.

Will you check it out and let us know what you think? We really value community feedback for all of our software clients, and we hope that you all will give us a hand and help us build the best personal media sharing service ever.

Many thanks for all of your support -

Catherine Meek, Director of Product Management, Share (powered by BitTorrent)

Check out the live streaming test this Friday January 6th at 8:00 PM PT (4:00 GMT) in the BitTorrent Live Studio for a live video streaming session featuring DJ Dragon Fly and VJ Kai K4change.

For more info about BitTorrent Live and our live studio events check out our BitTorrent Live Facebook page and check out our Web site.

About the artists for Friday January 6^th

DJ Dragon Fly

Tearing up the tribal vibe with a unique amalgamation of bass culture’s Dubstep, Glitch, Hard Downtempo, Breaks, House and Drum n Bass, his mixes are solidly fused to the Third World with sounds that can best be described as Transblobal Ghetto Bump

Now in his second decade on the circuit he has opened for many of dance scene’s most pioneering and resilient producers: Bassnectar, Ott, Krafty Kuts, Opiuo, Phuture Primitive, Atomic Hooligan, Tipper, Gaudi, Vibesquad, Freq Nasty, Cheb I Sabbah, Bluetech, Heavyweight Dub Champion, Random Rab, Nicodemus, Dreadzone, and many more!

SF Bay Area dance enthusiasts consistently place him in the top percentile at the DJ polls for his unique sounds, enhanced by added live percussion.

As a full time DJ, music and event producer he is found booking, producing, DJing and creating content throughout the West Coast event, festival and club scene. Look for him at Earthdance, Harmony Festival, Beloved, Mystic Garden Party, Shambala, SolFest, Techno Tribal, Bioneers, Anon Salon, Groove Garden, Symbiosis, Wanderlust, Worldly Sights & Sounds, East Bay Ecstatic Dance, Burning Man, Yoga Journal Conference, Wanderlust Festival, Beloved Festival, ANDC, Harbin Hotsprings, the West Coast yoga.

http://www.facebook.com/Martin.DJDragonfly

www.Facebook.com/DJ.Dragonfly.DJ

About VJ Kai

K4change (VJ Kai) is an Visual artist with a focus on live video performance and generative visual art. As a trained New Media and Video Effects, interactive softwares, as well as develops hardware solutions using Jazz Lemur multi-touch and touch OSC technology. Since 2009, he has VJed at clubs, events, and participated in festivals around the North American including Burning Man, Opulent Temple and Opel productions. His work also includes music video, art installation, stage design, video mapping, facade visual, and theater.

You may be asking yourself, “What the heck is WAY TOO SICK”? We think it’s time you found out. Claiming to come from the future, the new record label positions itself as an entity, aware of the trends that lie ahead, while providing a discerning voice, critical of what it sees as the tired clichés of the current era. “Music from the future” is their tag line. It’s promise: a selection of music–true to its timeless roots–ironically positioned against the ever-changing landscape and context of today’s popular music.

Is it electronic? Alt-rock? Folk-tech? Rap?? Does it matter? The fact that it might be hard to pin down is what makes artists like NCB and DOT BOMB so awesome. Perhaps the only conclusion is that the shape-shifting pastiche will likely leave you wondering what will come next. And we at BitTorrent are extremely excited to be working with them.

When asked “why BitTorrent?,” WAY TOO SICK artist and co-founder, NCB simply exclaimed, “What we LOVE, LOVE, LOVE about BitTorrent is that we can put together a collection of curated items and share it with as many people in the world as we want. The fact that the media is infinitely scalable, yet remains a finite collection that’s originally curated by us, makes us totally into using it as the primary means of distributing our art.”

Take a look at WAY TOO SICK’s featured page here to find out more info, download the bundle and immerse yourself in the sounds of the future.

Inside the bundle you will find cool things like:

• New NCB LP “Fixed Noise” (Exclusively released on BitTorrent)
• The Blissless EP by DOT BOMB
• The epic re-release of the Sal’s Paradise RED and BLUE sessions
• The tune “A white rabbit”  – a rap song about “The Matrix”

For more information on WAY TOO SICK check out their other sites:

Facebook

http://www.waytoosick.com

What’s the purpose behind our Live studio? It’s twofold. One, we are testing scaleabiity of BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen’s new live peer-to-peer streaming protocol. It’s an amazing technology that has the potential to transform live streaming of video over the Internet. By joining the test (and providing feedback!), you have a chance to be a play a role in a breakthrough technology.

Second, we are big fans and supporters of indie music, and many of us here at BT HQ in San Francisco are also fans of EDM music. It’s a perfect fit…we get to test the protocol and support artists, and you have a chance to tune in to a great show every week, from anywhere in the world.

Check out the event invite for more info and we will see you Friday!

About Vitamin Devo
VITAMINDEVO has been dropping his original acid techno flavored tracks up and down the west coast of California, collecting a following everywhere he goes. With loads of original music, remix’s and exclusives VITAMINDEVO really Brings It ON! And if you dig his music and you happen to live in the Boise Idaho area, go see Vitamin Devo LIVE on New Years Eve at NYE PUNKS N PIN-UPS.

http://vitamindevo.com/
http://soundcloud.com/vitamindevo
http://soundcloud.com/vitamindevomusic

VJ Musashii
Musashii(Chris Crismond) is a 3d artist, animator, coder, and performer. Once he put the swords down and picked up an Edirol he started to melt the fabric of space and time. He is currently working on Kinect based interactive projects, projection mapping using TouchDesigner, as well as constantly honing his 3d skills. Musashii’s sets range towards the dark, abstract and technical, melding many different layers into a tempo synched feast for the eyes.

Other Worlds is a collection of HD Sci-Fi short films brought together by VODO’s own curators. These seven slices of heaven bring talent from award winning filmmaker and effects guru Grzegor Jonkaty grim and Nikita Ovsyanniko to name a few.

With the finale release of Pioneer One behind us, we think it is a fantastic time to offer BitTorrent users another series new sci-fci series. The first installment of Other Worlds includes:

• The Third Letter (Grzegor Jonkatys)
• Perspective (Mehment Can Kocak)
• The Return of John Frum (Christian Sschlaeffer)
• Candy (Nikita Ovsyannikov)
• Dimentional Meltdown (Ofer Pedut)
• Kitty-Kitty (Michael Medalgia)
• ITD (Framescape)

You can check out more information and download all Other Worlds shorts here.

And remember if you like what you see support the artists who support BitTorrent by donating here (even a little means a lot!).

Join us this Friday, December 16th at 8:00 PM PT (3:00 GMT) in the BitTorrent Live Studio (http://live.bittorrent.com/) for a live video streaming session featuring DJ Amar, VJ K4 and Belly dancers. It is easy to install. Just make sure you have the latest update and go to http://live.bittorrent.com/ when the event starts.

As we test to scale the new live streaming protocol, remember your feedback is very important. We would not get anywhere without the constructive comments from our users so thanks for all of your help thus far! If you have not yet joined in for one of our test events, it is never too late.

You can also check out the BitTorrent Live Facebook page to stay up to date on all future live events and updates.

See you Friday!
About DJ Amar

Amar is amongst a handful of local DJs whose taste cuts a path through an abundance of musical selections and leads dancefloors into a hypnotic sway like snakes before the charmer. In this instance the muse is a masala that brews sounds from the Middle East and Balkans with rhythms of the Asian underground and electric Brazilian vibes. Whether its breaks, bhangra, house, drum & bass or downtempo the global nature of Amar’s sets bridges a multi-culti span from the world to the Bay Area.

As a DJ and promoter, he has collaborated and shared the stage with some of the Bay Area’s & world’s most innovative Musicians, DJs and dance troupes including DJ Dragonfly DJ Sep, Dr. Israel, Freyja, Maneesh the Twister, Giamma Cheb i Sabbah, Ultra Gypsy, Soulsalaam, Urban Tribal
Ariellah, SooozhyQ, Dub Gabriel, Dhol Rhythms, Lorin Nitin Sawhney, Unmata, Nader, Midival Punditz, Shabaz Sila and the Afrofunk Experience, Zoe Jakes, Ansuya Lady Ra, Third Eye Tribe, DJ Layla, Karsh Kale, Janaka State of Bengal, Dr Das & Ramjac, Jimmy Love Frederique, Rachel Brice, Glitch Mob and others.

Producer and resident of the bay area’s Global Gypsy night ELECTRIC VARDO, Amar regularly performs at SFs hottest venues
including Club Six, DNA Lounge, Nickie’s, 1015 Folsom, Temple 111 Minna, Roe, 12 Galaxies, Amnesia, Bollyhood, Mighty, El Rio, Underground SF, Elbo Room and Rickshaw Stop with Dhamaal, Nonstop Bhangra, Surya Dub, Worldly, Opel Dance Jam, Triple Power, & the Groove Garden
plus other ongoing and special events & festivals across the US, Canada and Europe.

VJ K4
http://k4change.com/

K4change (VJ Kai) is an Visual artist with a focus on live video performance and generative visual art. As a trained New Media and Video Effects, interactive softwares, as well as develops hardware solutions using Jazz Lemur multi-touch and touch OSC technology. Since 2009, he has VJed at clubs, events, and participated in festivals around the North American including Burning Man, Opulent Temple and Opel productions. His work also includes music video, art installation, stage design, video mapping, facade visual, and theater.

Today is the launch of Pioneer One Episode 6: War of the World. (Download the episode or the entire series here.)

We’re definitely feeling a sense of nostalgia here at BitTorrent. All the credit and our infinite respect go to filmmakers Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith and to Jamie King at VODO for his tireless efforts. We are extremely proud to have offered promotional support for such a worthy venture. Pioneer One was one of our original Spotlight Artist ventures, before we even formally created the program.

When we partnered with VODO and released the first Pioneer One episode last June, we had no idea how popular the made-for-torrent sci-fi series would be. Today, as we help unveil the much anticipated six and final episode to our users, the Pioneer One series has collectively been downloaded over 3.5 million times and raised almost 100,000 in fan donations. Want to express your thanks to the filmmakers? Donate here

“War of the Worlds” begins as Taylor prepares to go to the public with Yuri’s story, and everyone discovers the consequences of their actions in this wrenching finale to the heart-stopping series. What will happen? You will just have to watch and see! We know we can’t wait to find out.

Congratulations to the entire team at Pioneer One and VODO for all of your success, and a huge THANK YOU for believing in the BitTorrent community. Your efforts have opened new doors for independent filmmakers everywhere. A toast to you.

- All your fans here at BitTorrent

More Pioneer One

Feature Artist Page

Pioneer One Web Site

Donate

Facebook

So when the TWiT.tv contacted us a couple of weeks ago about Bram’s live streaming technology and offered to help us test it, we were beyond thrilled. We love our weekly Friday night DJ-hosted BitTorrent Live Studio sessions (don’t forget this Friday at 8 p.m. PT), but testing the technology with an audience like TWiT.tv?

TWiT.tv watchers are incredibly tech savvy, vocal, and they can really help us push the limits of this breakthrough technology. Huge.

This is all still very much in the early stages, but we’d love your help. This afternoon, we’re kicking off an initial “test-before-the-test” with one channel. In a nutshell, we need to know if the technology will scale smoothly enough to start integrating and testing the protocol across multiple channels/shows for TWiT.

Will you do us a favor and help seed? You can log in here. The feed’s going to be rolling 24/7, but our goal is to get a few thousand people to join simultaneously…so we need a bunch of people to join at once. If you join at 4 p.m. PT today, you may just win one of five µTorrent Plus licenses ($24.95 value) – just launched yesterday! Make sure you not only log into the stream but onto the BitTorrent Live chat for your chance…

Thank you all in advance for the help, and a big thanks to TWiT.tv for the support!

Each Friday at 8:00 PM PT (4:00 GMT) the live studio is hosting unique sounds from producers and musicians from all over the world. Join us for immersive music and videos performances from BitTorrent Live Studio and participate in what is bound to be the future of live streaming technology.

You can log in to view the stream and learn more at the BitTorrent Live Studio Web site, or follow us on Facebook for announcements.

You can also RSVP to this Friday’s live session here.

About the Artists

EL DIABLO

Producer, DJ & instrumentalist El Diablo is a Dubstep & Glitch Hop sorcerer, his sets nothing short of shocking. A powerful and energetic force on the decks, El Diablo is responsible for MalLabel Music’s biggest selling track, “Rollin With My Crew”.

El Diablo cut his teeth in the electronic world with San Francisco’s acclaimed Dhamaal Soundsystem. The crew’s worldly Drum n Bass sound garnered international attention with their 2004 self-titled debut album. The album sold thousands of copies internationally and enjoyed consistent airplay on BBC1 radio as well as being licensed for various features.

El Diablo’s co-production with Joshua Meltzer and Qawali master vocalist Sukhawat Ali-Khan of Dhaamal helped win them the top prize in the John Lennon International Songwriting Contest in the world music category for the song “Where We Meet”.

His latest Album, “Devil in the Machine”, released Oct 24th 2011 also on MalLabel, features a collaboration with the legendary DnB dj, UFO! and remixes by Megalodon and Liquid Stranger and continues his success, currently reaching #41 on the Beatport Charts.

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THE GENIE

The Genie is an avant garde performing artist and guitar looping innovator from San Francisco. Sponsored by the Line6 production company, he is the creator of a performance style called ‘scratch guitar’ and a unique brand of live-remixing called ‘g-mixing’. Bringing together a hybrid of genres, including trip hop, dubstep, reggae and hip hop, he utilizes unconventional slide techniques while manipulating knobs on his pedals with his toes.

http://thegeniemusic.com

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VJ MUSASHII

Musashii (Chris Crismond) is a 3D artist, animator, coder, and performer. Once he put the swords down and picked up an Edirol he started to melt the fabric of space and time. He is currently working on Kinect based interactive projects, projection mapping using TouchDesigner, as well as constantly honing his 3d skills. Musashii’s sets range towards the dark, abstract and technical, melding many different layers into a tempo synched feast for the eyes.