He is the former chief content officer for BitTorrent Inc. and studio head at 1-800-N0TH1NG, an innovation lab financed by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
[11][12][13] Submarine, a record produced by Mason and released on Tuned Plastic, was included on DJ EZ's seminal Pure Garage: Bass Breaks and Beats compilation in 2001.
[15] Between 2002 and 2004, Mason connected RWD's online director Lex Johnson and illustrator Art Jaz to create the animated adult sitcom series The Booo Krooo.
[16] In 2005, Mason moved to New York and began working on his first book, The Pirate's Dilemma, watch was published by Simon & Schuster in the US[17] and Penguin in the UK[18] in early 2008.
[25] In the book, Mason makes the case that the best way to beat piracy is to compete with it, by determining the value pirates are creating and coming up with legal alternatives.
"By short-circuiting conventional channels and red tape, pirates can deliver new materials, formats, and business models to audiences who want them", he writes.
By 2009, he had been published in The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer Music Monthly, Dazed & Confused, Adweek, Complex, Libération, and other publications in more than twenty countries.
As Fast Company described it, "Best-selling self-help author Tim Ferriss—desperate after being boycotted by bookstores for using Amazon as a publisher—released the first chapter of his book The 4-Hour Chef in a bundle, with recipes, an audiobook, and live workshop video content available in exchange for a user's email address.
Linkin Park used bundles to distribute a free trial of its recording software, StageLight, and soon after saw a 200% increase in the number of upgrades to the paid version.
[38] Under Mason’s leadership in marketing, BitTorrent reintroduced itself as a credible technology company with a 2013 billboard campaign that garnered a great deal of attention.
[39] The company anonymously posted billboards in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles depicting controversial statements such as "Your Data Should Belong to the NSA" and "The Internet Should Be Regulated".
[40] After several weeks of media confusion, including an investigation by the LA Times,[41] Mason revealed in a blog post that BitTorrent was behind the ads.
"With the reveal, we are showing people that things don't actually have to be like that", Mason told Mashable in an interview, referring to the original bleak messages.
[45] On 26 September 2014, BitTorrent released their first pay-gated Bundle, Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, an album by Radiohead singer Thom Yorke.