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BitTorrent, Inc.
201 Mission St., Ste. 900
San Francisco, CA 94105
CA Tel. 415-568-9000

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.bittorrent.com
 Employees: 20

Online video site BitTorrent makes file-sharing software used to distribute movies, music, and games, both legally and illegally. The company started out as a major source for movie pirates, but the service is starting to go legit. BitTorrent has agreements with major studios (such as Warner Bros, Fox, and Paramount) that has the studios distributing their content using BitTorrent's file-sharing technology. BitTorrent also has agreements with Asian hardware makers such as ASUS, Planex, and QNAP, makers of routers and servers, which include BitTorrent's software in several of their products.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $1.7M

Officers:
CEO and Director: Eric Klinker
President, Co-Founder, and Director: Ashwin Navin
CFO and General Counsel: Mitchell Edwards

Competitors:
Atom Entertainment
CinemaNow
YouTube

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BitTorrent, Inc.
Type Private company
Founded 2004
Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA
Key people Eric Klinker, CEO
Bram Cohen
Industry Internet Software & Services
Products Consumer Freeware
Content Delivery
Embedded Software
Employees 20 (2009)
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, Inc. also maintains the BitTorrent protocol.

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Business model

BitTorrent's headquarters are at 612 Howard Street in San Francisco.

The company offers popular consumer freeware (the BitTorrent client). 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]

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.

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.

Partners

According to the Company's website, the company has announced partnerships with many companies,[3][4] including:

See also

References

  1. ^ BitTorrent DNA
  2. ^ BitTorrent » Company
  3. ^ BitTorrent » Partners
  4. ^ BitTorrent » pressreleases
  5. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/twentieth-century-fox[dead link]
  6. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/comedy-central[dead link]
  7. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/lionsgate[dead link]
  8. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/mtv[dead link]
  9. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/paramount[dead link]
  10. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/spike[dead link]
  11. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/warner-bros[dead link]
  12. ^ a b c BitTorrent Device Partners

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