BitTorrent Has 100 Million Users
According to a press release, more than 20 million people are now accessing the file sharing service via the BitTorrent mainline and the µTorrent service. More than 400,000 clients are downloaded now every day.
“This is an exciting day for our team. Our vision is to build a complete technology ecosystem comprised of software, content and devices, designed to connect modern content creators with a massive digital audience,” said Eric Klinker, CEO at BitTorrent. “This milestone highlights the size of our user base and the power of our software.”
Founded in 2004, BitTorrent maintains the BitTorrent protocol, which is considered to be most popular file sharing technology for large files in use today. The protocol has consistently been named as one of the major consumers of Internet bandwidth with estimates ranging from about 30% to 60%. Several carriers are said to have established bandwidth throttling technology that especially targets BitTorrent and slows down file sharing processes.
Over the past five years, BitTorrent users have been targeted by movie and music industry organizations for copyright violations. In 2010 alone, 20,000 users were sued by the the U.S. Copyright Group, while the Recording Industry Association of America is estimated to have sued a total of more than 30,000 BitTorrent users.
If they provide private sharing were you can just share the files with yourself or a small group of people, this technology could challenge the emerging cloud market.
Let me explain. Even though I like Google, I know I'll have to pay them 15 to $30 dollars a month to have access to... say a couple of terabytes on the cloud. With bit torrent in contrast, I can host cloud application on my desktop at home, and access them any where from the Internet... no monthly fee !(other than the Internet access) For that reason alone I think many savy users may be inclined to use bitTorrent as a cloud replacing tool. It would also be attractive to small business not waiting to let an outside company have possession of their data.
It's a advance in P2P(a P2P without spam and viruses) and too in download management(impossible to download a corrupted file).
well, diferent case for a bad client of bad HDD (e.g. firmware issue).
Jamendo.com is nice in that all its downloads are via torrents, not dedicated servers.
As long as the data is enrypted, I see no problem. I personally have no issue with a cloud drive (maybe make it appear as a virtual drive in Windows?), and the only thing stopping me is low speed on my uplink connection.
Lemme see... In the last 90 days, I've uploaded 474GB and downloaded 486GB. I can certainly believe the bandwidth claim.
Around 3 months ago I also reformatted my main drive, and my Steam folder is 457GB.
I also have Netflix, and I'm sure that uses quite a bit of bandwidth (between me and 2 other people).
My bandwidth cap is 100GB/month... I love my lazy ISP. ^_^
that's a made up number that makes no sense. why download porn with so many free streaming sites?