BITTORRENT

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued crypto asset entrepreneur Justin Sun along with eight celebrities -- including actress Lindsay Lohan, boxer/influencer Jake Paul, and rapper/producer Soulja Boy -- for perpetrating fraud via market manipulation and paying celebrities for crypto endorsements.

Bitcoin (BTC) has had a dull December so far with prices hovering between $46,000 and $50,000 for the most part. The market is in a consolidation phase as BTC struggles to reclaim the key $52,000 level that will reconfirm its rally towards previous highs.

Bitcoin is still down about 30 per cent so far this month while rival cryptocurrency Ether is about 42 per cent below its record. However, overall volume in the crypto market have been affected, analysts say.

The top bid Saturday for Dorsey's tweet -- $2 million -- came from Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, a platform for blockchain, the technology underlying cryptocurrencies. He also heads the BitTorrent streaming platform.

In 2019, during its first season run, 'The Mandalorian' was the third-most torrented show.

Telegram saw piracy on its platform jump a staggering 1092% or about 11 times during lockdown, while the Internet and mobile on a whole saw a 348% increase, according to data shared by Markscan, a company that works with the entertainment industry to fight piracy.

Justin Sun has founded one of the largest blockchain platforms, Tron, in 2017 and turned it into a virtual Las Vegas with gambling apps. He’s rubbed shoulders with Apple Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. founders, hired celebrity endorsers like the late Kobe Bryant and drawn accusations of plagiarism, which he has denied, more than once.

Buffett, who once called bitcoin "probably rat poison squared", was due to have lunch with Sun on Wednesday.

The bidding war for the lunch started May 26. It heated up early in the week and fell fairly quiet heading into the final day of the auction when a handful of bids came in that exceeded $4 million.

Like many of the startups that surged in value before crashing during the digital-asset market bubble, the company features a young entrepreneur, questions about usage of its main product and a lot of hype.

The same decision was made last year for season six, after season five's first few episodes leaked on BitTorrent.

A washing machine that detects low detergent and automatically contacts the supplier to place an order is in fact running on Blockchain technology.

As president and CEO of BitTorrent, the world’s leading P2P file transfer protocol, it’s not surprising that Eric Klinker is a firm believer in net neutrality.

Savetheinternet.in questioned Airtel’s commitment to net neutrality when it was simultaneously violating it by putting differential pricing for different sites.

Project Maelstorm looks to do away with one single server and instead help you access a webpage by getting content from peer-to-peer distributed torrents.

The Star Wars saga will become available via iTunes and Google Play on Friday, marking the first time audiences will be able to download the movies without breaking the law.

Fantasy drama series "Game of Thrones" has been again named the most pirated TV show of the year.

With HTTPA, each item of private data would be assigned its own uniform resource identifier (URI) that would convert the Web from, essentially.

Producers adopted new distribution technologies, looking to end the creation of copies within theatres, either directly from reel or by filming the screen.

As the first biopic — another one is under production — on Steve Jobs gets premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, mark out 2013 as the Year of the Geek Movie. ET lists a few that are in the works: