Two open source programmers, one in Texas and one in South Africa, have launched, a distributed social network built on Sync. And music lovers are using Sync to browse their massive song libraries on mobile devices with limited storage.Īnd again, following in the footsteps of Dropbox, developers are turning Sync into a platform for use with all sorts of other applications. System administrators are using the tool to move corporate data onto fresh computer servers. Video editors, the company says, can avoid FedExing hard drives around the country since Sync and the underlying BitTorrent protocol can move gigabytes of daily footage across the internet. Like Dropbox, the tool has a wide range of uses. This past fall, the company rented billboards in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and without identifying itself, it plastered them with purposely outrageous statements like "your data should belong to the NSA." Then, after whipping the media into a frenzy, BitTorrent claimed responsibility for the billboards and updated them with anti-surveillance messages. and Lou Hong, Product Marketing Manager, BitTorrent Sync.
"It immediately proved magical," says BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker.Įrik Pounds, VP of Product Management for BitTorrent Sync Matt Mason, VP of Marketing, BitTorrent, Inc. Each month, according to BitTorrent, about 2 million people now use Sync, including not only individuals but businesses looking for simpler, safer, and more secure ways of sharing data across systems. This means it could be less vulnerable to surveillance by the NSA and other government organizations, and that seems to have struck a chord with many people across the net. The difference is that, thanks to the BitTorrent protocol, which connects machines without the help of a central server, the service isn't controlled by Dropbox or any other organization, including BitTorrent itself. The tool won first prize at the hackathon, and within a few more months, after Lissounov honed the tool alongside various other engineers, the company delivered BitTorrent Sync, a Dropbox-like service that lets you seamlessly synchronize files across computers and mobile devices. But then came a Belarusian engineer named Konstantin Lissounov.Ībout a year ago, Lissounov joined a hackathon sponsored by his employer, BitTorrent Inc., a company that seeks to transform the peer-to-peer protocol into a legitimate means of file-sharing for both consumers and businesses, and in a matter of hours, he slapped together a new BitTorrent tool that let him quickly and easily send encrypted photos of his three children across dodgy Eastern European network lines to the rest of his family. BitTorrent was best known as an internet protocol that let people swap pirated movies and music at the expense of big Hollywood studios and record labels.
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