BitTorrent
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Bittorrent) Jump to: navigation, searchBitTorrent may refer to:
- BitTorrent (protocol) BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and it has been estimated that it may account for as much as 43 % of all Internet traffic as of February 2009, a peer-to-peer (P2P) communications protocol for file sharing
- BitTorrent (company) BitTorrent, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, is an American company 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, Inc. also maintains the BitTorrent protocol, a company which develops and maintains the BitTorrent protocol
- BitTorrent (software) BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program developed by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent, Inc. used for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent was the first client written for the protocol. It is often nicknamed Mainline by developers denoting its official origins. Since version 6.0 the BitTorrent client has been a rebranded, the original BitTorrent client
- BitTorrent DNA This program is designed to speed up the viewing of streaming video, downloading software and playing online video games. It does so by distributing the end users' downloads between each other. In this way, the developers intend that content providers should take less load on their servers so the end users can receive the content faster (Delivery Network Accelerator)
See also
- Comparison of BitTorrent clients A BitTorrent client is a computer program that manages downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol, programs that download files using the BitTorrent protocol
- Comparison of BitTorrent sites, sites which index torrent files
- Torrent (disambiguation)
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