BitTorrent, Inc.

News and overview for BitTorrent, Inc.

How the iPod changed everything
Globe and Mail (Toronto), The | 22 days 10 hours 16 minutes ago
While pirates bled the music industry, other businesses rode the tide and collected the booty. Former Apple insiders tell how Steve Jobs did it


Chrome OS Lands on BitTorrent Sites - Reviews by PC Magazine
PC Magazine | 16 hours 34 minutes ago
Not surprisingly, developers have already snapped up the code to Google's open-source Chrome OS, known as Chromium, then compiled it and put it on the Web for users to download.


What's replacing P2P, BitTorrent as pirate hangouts?
Network World | 42 days 47 minutes ago
Driven by increased crackdowns on BitTorrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, software pirates are fast-moving their warez to file-hosting Web sites.


Recording industry slams Canada's 'out of date' laws
Canada.com | 15 days 16 hours 5 minutes ago
Severely outdated copyright laws have opened the door for frivolous lawsuits in Canada, the Canadian Recording Industry Association says.


Lime Wire Names Two Vice Presidents [Press Release]
MarketWire | 10 days 15 hours 14 minutes ago
NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 11/10/09 -- Lime Wire has named John Pavley as Vice President, Engineering and Shoshana Winter as Vice President, Marketing; it was announced today by George Searle, Lime Wire CEO. Both positions report directly to Searle and are effective immediately.


ZINNET Wants brite-View CinemaTube to Replace Your DVD Player [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 38 days 14 minutes ago
...receive a free HDMI cable. ZINNET, Inc. is a subsidiary of Zinwell Corporation...including HD multi-media players with BitTorrent download features, and wireless HDMI transmission...Han, Marketing Specialist of ZINNET, Inc.,+1-408-627-8037 , charlotte...


Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world
Network World | 14 days 9 hours 41 minutes ago
Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. With the demise of The Pirate Bay , isoHunt is now the second most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing site today behind Mininova , and ranked in the top 250 Web sites in the world by both Alexa and Quantcast.


Music Piracy Wars May Finally Take a Break
Network World | 18 days 21 hours 28 minutes ago
Stormy relationships between pirates and the music industry could start to settle down some, now that BitTorrent is developing new software aimed at eliminating any reason for ISPs to throttle peer-to-peer (P2P) network traffic. Meanwhile, a new survey suggests that instead of posing a menace to record companies, pirates are actually helping the music industry to survive, anyway.


Facebook Puts in Place Updated Privacy Policy - Reviews by PC Magazine
PC Magazine | 16 hours 34 minutes ago
Earlier this week, Facebook users voted to adopt new privacy policies the social networking site proposed in late October.


Judge Makes BlueBeat Beatles Ban Really Official - Reviews by PC Magazine
PC Magazine | 16 hours 34 minutes ago
A California district judge this week issued EMI a preliminary injunction against Web site BlueBeat, which posted and sold EMI content on its site, including the Beatles re-mastered collection.


New York City Joins Network Neutrality Debate - Reviews by PC Magazine
PC Magazine | 18 hours 30 minutes ago
Several New York City Council members are considering a resolution urging the Federal Communications Commission to adopt net neutrality rules, but AT&T met with agency officials this week to voice concerns about the proposal.


Office 2010 public beta leaks to Internet
Network World | 7 days 19 hours 55 minutes ago
Office 2010's public beta has leaked to the Web, days ahead of its anticipated roll-out next week, searches of file-sharing sites showed today.


Pirate Bay Shutting Down; Are Torrents Dead? - Reviews by PC Magazine
PC Magazine | 3 days 22 hours 54 minutes ago
The Pirate Bay is finally shutting down for good, but according to the site, it's doing so on its own terms. And does this mean the death of torrents?


Bill would restrict P2P use on government networks
Network World | 2 days 18 hours 36 minutes ago
House lawmakers introduced a bill that would restrict the use of peer-to-peer technology on government networks in response to several embarrassing data leaks.


The (legal) music fades out for Canadians
Globe and Mail (Toronto), The | 31 days 18 hours 24 minutes ago
The world has gone digital but legitimate download sites shun Canada in part because of licensing problems





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Company Overview


Company: BitTorrent, Inc.
Industry: Information Collection & Delivery
Website: http://www.bittorrent.com

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

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 1.7 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Sales 0.0 (2008)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 0 ()
One-year % Growth in Net Income 0.0 ()
Number of Employees 20 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees 0.0 (2008)
Fiscal Year-End December