BitTorrent, Inc.
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| Type | Private company |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Key people | Doug Walker, CEO Ashwin Navin, Co-founder & President Bram Cohen, Co-founder & Chief Scientist Eric Klinker, CTO |
| Industry | Internet Software & Services |
| Products | Content Delivery Content Aggregation Internet Video-on-demand |
| Employees | 60 (2008) |
| Website | www.bittorrent.com |
BitTorrent, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, is an American corporation that develops peer-assisted Internet content delivery technology based on the BitTorrent protocol. The company was founded on September 22, 2004 by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's Chief Scientist and President respectively. BitTorrent, Inc. also maintains the BitTorrent protocol.
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[edit] Business model
The company has announced three main business lines: content aggregation at http://www.bittorrent.com where the company, on February 25, 2007, released a web-based store to distribute movies, TV shows, music and video games. The company also licenses its technology, called BitTorrent DNA (Delivery Network Accelerator),[1] to websites "to add the speed and efficiency of patented BitTorrent technology to their current content delivery infrastructure, significantly reducing bandwidth costs while increasing capacity over standard HTTP delivery solutions." The third product offering is the BitTorrent Software Development Kit (SDK) for consumer electronics and home networking hardware manufacturers.[2]
The BitTorrent online destination features downloadable and ad-supported streaming content.
BitTorrent DNA allows website developers to overlay their content delivery network (CDN) vendor with BitTorrent's P2P CDN, built on the company's widely used client software. One should be able to expect dramatic cost savings using P2P bandwidth relative to the cost of CDN bandwidth, however ISPs may view this as an unattractive application of their network capacity.
In the words of the company's president: "BitTorrent has fundamentally changed the Internet by enabling high-speed and high-quality content distribution on the web," said Mr Navin. "Today we have announced the role BitTorrent.com will play as a hub for consumers to enjoy their favourite entertainment, but we see a future that involves BitTorrent's content delivery platform powering thousands of websites, including those of content creators themselves."[3]
The BitTorrent SDK (or what the company calls "BitTorrent Certified" program) offers compatibility between hardware, such as Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions and other Internet-enabled devices, and the BitTorrent client.
[edit] Partners
According to the Company's website, the company has announced partnerships with some 60 companies,[4][5] including:
- 20th Century Fox[6]
- Comedy Central[7]
- Lionsgate Films[8]
- MTV[9]
- Paramount[10]
- Spike TV[11]
- Warner Brothers[12]
- Netgear[13]
- Buffalo[14]
- D-Link[15]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ BitTorrent DNA
- ^ BitTorrent » Company
- ^ FT.com / Technology - Film industry bows to BitTorrent
- ^ BitTorrent » Partners
- ^ BitTorrent » pressreleases
- ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/twentieth-century-fox
- ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/comedy-central
- ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/lionsgate
- ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/mtv
- ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/paramount
- ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/spike
- ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/warner-bros
- ^ BitTorrent Device Partners
- ^ BitTorrent Device Partners
- ^ BitTorrent Device Partners
[edit] External links
- BitTorrent Homepage
- Company Overview
- Company Foundation
- BitTorrent Bets on New CEO, New Business Models
- BitTorrent to Open Video Store
- Warner Bros. to sell films via BitTorrent
- SF Weekly BitTorrent, Comcast, EFF Antipathetic To FCC Regulation of P2P Traffic
- Netgear and D-Link to Team up with BitTorrent
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