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BitTorrent announced today the launch of the BitTorrent Entertainment Network, featuring an extensive library of downloadable digital entertainment content from 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. And MGM. Users will be able to rent movies, buy TV shows, music videos and publish their own content.

The first HD-DVD movie has finally found its way into the hallowed halls of BitTorrent. The move could be the first small pebble that starts an avalanche of HD-DVD content to be ripped, released, and scorned by the MPAA as a bane to civilization itself.

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.

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

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

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.