Based on this figure, the total number of monthly users may be estimated to more than a quarter of a billion (≈ 250 million). As of January 2012, BitTorrent is utilized by 150 million active users. As of 2013, BitTorrent has 15–27 million concurrent users at any time. In 2019, BitTorrent was a dominant file sharing protocol and generated a substantial amount of Internet traffic, with 2.46% of downstream, and 27.58% of upstream traffic.
In February 2013, BitTorrent was responsible for 3.35% of all worldwide bandwidth-more than half of the 6% of total bandwidth dedicated to file sharing. P2P networks were estimated to, collectively, account for approximately 43% to 70% of Internet traffic depending on location, as of February 2009. īitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, such as digital video files containing TV shows and video clips, or digital audio files containing songs. libtorrent was updated to support the new version on 6 September 2020. On, an update to the protocol specification was released by BitTorrent, called BitTorrent v2. Programmer Bram Cohen, a University at Buffalo alumnus, designed the protocol in April 2001, and released the first available version on 2 July 2001. 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. Popular clients include μTorrent, Xunlei Thunder, Transmission, qBittorrent, Vuze, Deluge, BitComet and Tixati. BitTorrent clients are available for a variety of computing platforms and operating systems, including an official client released by BitTorrent, Inc.
A BitTorrent client is a computer program that implements the BitTorrent protocol. To send or receive files, a person uses a BitTorrent client on their Internet-connected computer.
This article is about the file sharing protocol.
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