Peer-to-peer file sharing network BitTorrent launched its first...

Peer-to-peer file sharing network BitTorrent launched its first “paygated” file, said a company news release Friday (http://bit.ly/1BhhGa4). The bundled file is musician Thom Yorke’s new album Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, it said. “The torrent mechanism does not require any server uploading or hosting costs or ‘cloud’ malarkey,” said a separate release (http://bit.ly/Zghr3M). Paygated files “could be an effective way of handing some control of Internet commerce back to people who are creating the work,” it said. Yorke is frontman of Radiohead.