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BitTorrent Crosses Historic 2 Billion Installations

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Tuesday, August 11, 2020
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BitTorrent Inc., the leading company in peer-to-peer protocols and products, announced that it surpassed 2 billion installations of its popular torrent client software on Windows, Mac and Android.

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  • BitTorrent Inc., the leading company in peer-to-peer protocols and products, announced that it surpassed 2 billion installations of its popular torrent client software on Windows, Mac and Android.
  • In celebration of the milestone, the company is offering 30% off all Windows Pro products for a limited time.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200811005343/en/
    BitTorrent Inc. has historically surpassed 2 billion installations (Graphic: Business Wire)
    "Almost two decades ago the dream of decentralized file transfer was brought into existence by BitTorrent, thus changing the world and positively impacting the lives of people everywhere, said Justin Sun, founder of TRON and CEO of BitTorrent.
  • Today we celebrate our history and everyone involved in making the BitTorrent protocol and our products a success.

µTorrent Web for Mac Simplifies the Torrent Download to Stream Experience

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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
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BitTorrent Inc., a leader in peer-to-peer protocols and products, announced the official release of Torrent Web for Mac, an online torrent client that helps users quickly search, download and stream torrent files inside their browser.

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  • BitTorrent Inc., a leader in peer-to-peer protocols and products, announced the official release of Torrent Web for Mac, an online torrent client that helps users quickly search, download and stream torrent files inside their browser.
  • BitTorrent Web for Mac, a similar product available at bittorrent.com, is also now available.
  • "With Torrent Web for Mac, we extended the feature set of our popular Windows Web torrent client to macOS," said Justin Knoll, VP of Product at BitTorrent.
  • "Now Mac users can download any file type to store locally, stream media within a browser-based player while files download, set download/upload speed limits to free up network resources for other internet tasks, and much more."

BitTorrent Announces Innovative Approach to Speed

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Thursday, January 17, 2019
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"With BitTorrent Speed, we aim to strengthen the BitTorrent protocol and then deliver more features that inspire innovation across industries," said Justin Sun, founder of TRON and CEO of BitTorrent.

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  • "With BitTorrent Speed, we aim to strengthen the BitTorrent protocol and then deliver more features that inspire innovation across industries," said Justin Sun, founder of TRON and CEO of BitTorrent.
  • With BitTorrent Speed, the BitTorrent protocol client will be able to receive tokens for "seeding" files for longer periods.
  • BitTorrent Speed is undergoing extensive testing on the network to make it as seamless and reliable to users as the current client, according to Justin Knoll, head of BitTorrent Speed development.
  • BitTorrent Speed will become available on other BitTorrent clients by late 2019.

BitTorrent Launches µTorrent Web, the Next Generation of Torrenting

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Tuesday, September 4, 2018
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"Our vision for Torrent Web was to build a torrent client with quick playability and simplicity at its core," said Justin Knoll, VP of Product at BitTorrent.

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  • "Our vision for Torrent Web was to build a torrent client with quick playability and simplicity at its core," said Justin Knoll, VP of Product at BitTorrent.
  • While BitTorrent has seen a strong increase in demand from the community for Torrent Web, the company still sees continued demand for its desktop version of Torrent, also known as Torrent Classic.
  • Plans to launch BitTorrent Web, a similar product, are in the works and will soon be available on bittorrent.com .
  • Learn more about Torrent Web here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pShr9UZULXk
    Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard in 2004, BitTorrent, Inc. is a consumer software company based in San Francisco.