The file sharing BitTorrent system landed its first major Hollywood studio customer, as Warner Bros agreed to distribute movies and TV programs using BitTorrent’s technology.

I was listening to Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles yesterday; if memory serves, Slusher’s was the very first podcast I ever listened to, back around October 2004.

In a nineteen-page response to a lawsuit filed by the MPAA and the major Hollywood studios, Torrentspy suggested in the motion to dismiss that the plaintiffs may as well sue Google for infringement.

The online retailer has added a new service for users: a low-cost virtual closet where people can put in and take out their data online, and pay for just what they store and transfer.

The forthcoming South by Southwest music and film conferences will deliver music compilations and movie trailers using BitTorrent’s P2P technology.

Oslo-based Opera Software today announced that it has teamed with BitTorrent Inc. to include the BitTorrent(TM) protocol in the upcoming version of the Opera Web browser.

The Opera 9 Technology Preview 2 will integrate support for the BitTorrent protocol and should be available soon for testing.

The creator of the high-speed file sharing application has linked up with Hollywood studios in an effort to clamp down on movie piracy and promote a way for film distributors to get their wares to users online.

A movie pirate who misused BitTorrent software to share stolen films was convicted by a Hong Kong court for his actions.

The file-sharing software company has raised $8.75 million in a funding round from Doll Capital Management.

Services like eDonkey have picked up the load for file sharers as a result of law enforcement action against illegal “tracker” sites.

The popular high-speed file-sharing tool BitTorrent has been embedded into a test preview of the Opera browser.

In a unanimous decision, the highest court in the land found that Grokster promoted its service as a means of infringing copyright.

BitTorrent’s creator Bram Cohen says the Redmond-based software company is full of hot air.

British researchers for the Redmond-based software and game console maker discussed the company’s work on a superfast peer to peer sharing system.

Users of the superfast file sharing system have been finding hidden surprises on their computers.

AOL is serious about its recently acquired audio and video search engine SingingFish. Timer Warner’s Internet baby has been very busy on the wheel-and-deal circuit, signing up with some big name A/V feeders.

When “Star Wars Episode II: Revenge of the Sith” became available for download hours before the theatrical release, the Force departed from users of the increasingly popular BitTorrent technology. Federal agents have launched a Death Star styled offensive on file sharing website owners and users.

With BitTorrent becoming THE preferred method for peer-2-peer users, the idea of a search engine with an index of torrent files only can be quite appealing… unless you are apart of the entertainment establishment.

Bram Cohen, the beekeeper of Internet swarms, directs his attention to widening the avenue of BitTorrent, his own revolutionary P2P protocol into an expressway of mass-transited file sharing. Within the next two weeks, Cohen plans to release a BitTorrent based search engine, cavorting with former Yahoo! strategist Ashwin Navin.

If you’re at all interested in copyright, the movie industry, BitTorrent, or Bram Cohen (its creator), I recommend reading The BitTorrent Effect from the January 2005 issue of Wired.