BitTorrent
Sign in to saveBitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner. The act of downloading and uploading data via BitTorrent is also labeled "torrenting". The protocol is developed and maintained by Rainberry, Inc., and was first released in 2001.
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BitTorrent is a system that lets people download and upload files directly from each other over the internet, rather than relying on a single central server. This decentralized approach, first released in 2001, allows large files to be shared more efficiently by breaking them into pieces that come from multiple sources at once.
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Key facts
- Software.logo
- BitTorrent logo.svg
- Software.logo_caption
- Logo of the BitTorrent client
- Software.author
- Bram Cohen
- Software.developer
- Rainberry, Inc.
- Software.standard
- The BitTorrent Protocol Specification
- Software.genre
- peer-to-peer file sharing
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29 sectionsContents
- History
- Design
- Searching
- Downloading and sharing
- Creating and publishing
- Anonymity
- Associated technologies
- Distributed trackers
- Web seeding
- RSS feeds
- Throttling and encryption
- Multitrackers
- Peer selection
- Implementations
- Adoption
- Popularity and traffic statistics
- Film, video, and music
- Broadcasters
- Cloud Service Providers
- Software
- Government
- Education
- Others
- Legislation
- Security
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner. The act of downloading and uploading data via BitTorrent is also labeled "torrenting". The protocol is developed and maintained by Rainberry, Inc., and was first released in 2001.
To send or receive files, users use a BitTorrent client on their Internet-connected computer, which are available for a variety of computing platforms and operating systems, including an official client. BitTorrent trackers provide a list of files available for transfer and allow the client to find peer users, known as "seeds", who may transfer the files. BitTorrent downloading is considered to be faster than HTTP ("direct downloading") and FTP due to the lack of a central server that could limit bandwidth.