Finding independent musicians is hard enough when you’re trawling through music blogs. With the advent of the Internet, the number of indies out there has exploded in the past several years. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just enter the name of an artist that you like and get a list of suggested albums…
Bitmunk Launches World’s First Open Music Recommendation Service
Published September 9th, 2007Bitmunk Blazes Path in Film and TV
Published July 4th, 2007Bitmunkers around the world have something to celebrate on this 4th of July – the launch of a full line of film and television services via our website and secure file distribution network. High Definition digital distribution of television, film and video shorts have arrived on Bitmunk! Read on to learn more about the exciting…
Tia Fix Joins Staff at Digital Bazaar
Published May 17th, 2007Digital Bazaar Expands Staff – Ads Industry Maven Tia Fix
Bitmunk, Microformats and the Semantic Web
Published April 24th, 2007If there is one thing we do well at Digital Bazaar, it is think BIG. One of our desires is to enact globally positive change in the music industry. This blog post is about one of our internal projects that is going to do just that. It is cryptically called the “Semantic Wusic” project –…
Bitmunk acquires over 800,000 songs – 63,000 artists
Published February 12th, 2007Bitmunk achieved a very important milestone today, with over 800,000 DRM-free songs on our network, we continue to be the largest legal DRM-free peer-to-peer network in the world. Over 63,000 artists have signed up with Bitmunk so far – we pay each artist almost ten times as much as a typical large record label –…
The First Open Source P2P Digital Content Transaction Platform in History
Published January 15th, 2007To build and launch the first copyright-respecting P2P Digital Content Transaction Platforms in the world is no small feat. We are here because of the extraordinary efforts of volunteers that donate their time to open source software. Linux, Apache, Python, PHP, MySQL, and Lustre are just a few of the open source technologies that we…
Bitmunk is going Open Source!
Published January 4th, 2007In another industry first, we are planning to go open source with several of our software projects. In doing this, we hope to foster a great deal of development in the area of peer-to-peer digital file transactions. Our software helps people run their websites by offering digital content sales as a part of their website…
Where does your entertainment dollar go?
Published December 1st, 2006Where does your entertainment dollar go? How much should you be paying for music, movies and cable television? You would be surprised to find out how much of it is not going to the places you want it to go. This article proposes a new method of distributing media that benefits the people that matter…
Newsvine Article on Bitmunk
Published November 30th, 2006Killfile at Newsvine has written a nice piece on us: “The system is elegant in its simplicity. Bitmunk capitalizes upon the scalability of peer to peer networking, allowing each purchaser to function as a quasi-independent retailer to other customers. This model allows Digital Bazaar to compensate not only artists for their music but Bitmunk users…
Bitmunk 2.0 Launches!
Published November 28th, 2006We are very proud to announce the version 2.0 launch of our software and technology. Bitmunk 2.0 is a significant improvement over the version 1.0 software and technology. Most significant is the integration of the Bitmunk Buying Engine and Bitmunk Personal Sales Server technology. The Bitmunk Personal Edition 2.0 software is capable of doing many…
Legal Peer-to-peer: Why France is Late
Published April 25th, 2006A story on legal peer-to-peer services that featured Bitmunk was recently written about in a French Journal: Journal Du Net. The english translation can be found here: Legal Peer-to-Peer: Why France is Late
Create your very own online music store!
Published March 28th, 2005We’ve released version 1.0 of our P2P Sales Server software that allows anyone to sell music straight from their own computer. With this technology you’ll be able to put your music collection up for sale on the Internet. The more artists we get signed up with Bitmunk (it’s free to sign up!) the more music…
We’ve Launched Bitmunk 1.0!
Published March 21st, 2005As of today, Bitmunk has officially been launched. This morning we sent out our press release on PrWeb. Our Bitmunk 1.0 download client and Bitmunk 1.0 sales server have been made available for free download from our website. We are very excited to be providing a service for the sale of any type of digital…
Billboard Magazine Blogs About Bitmunk
Published March 15th, 2005Billboard is blogging about us. From the article: “The best part according to the report, is that the agreement allows any CD Baby artist to distribute their digital music via the Bitmunk network while retaining the vast majority of the sales revenue. The innovative business model facilitates the sale of “used media files” that can…
Music Distribution Agreement with CD Baby
Published March 14th, 2005We have successfully acquired a music distribution agreement with CD Baby. This is big news as they are the first company to commit to our business model and technology. The process was painless, they really understand the possibilities of digital distribution. We will announce the number of available titles at a later time, but this…
We’ve been Slashdotted… Kinda
Published August 13th, 2004So, we got Slashdotted on the one day that Slashdot had technical problems on their website. We hit the front page and then Slashdot went down for a good five hours. What luck. In the end, we only got about 250,000 hits – not bad. Slashdot Article on Bitmunk
Article on Bitmunk at Online Reporter
Published August 7th, 2004The Online Reporter has done a very nice article about us. Visit their site and take a look. Online Reporter: Digital Bazaar’s Bitmunk Legal P2P Network Takes On Online Music Stores
Bitmunk Beta Released!
Published July 28th, 2004It is with great pleasure that we release Bitmunk 1.0. Our solution to this whole media distribution via peer-to-peer quagmire.