BitTorrent Entertainment Network
02/26/2007 11:56 | News
BitTorrent
Today marks a day of transition for BitTorrent, Inc. Although always on the map towards legitimate acceptance, the launch of the BitTorrent Entertainment Network is perhaps the most significant step forward since the company made amends with the movie industry in November of 2005. Since that time, BitTorrent, Inc. has been slowly building a massive catalog of free and pay content.

But things weren’t always that way for the BitTorrent protocol. When the ball first started rolling for Bram Cohen, the CEO of BitTorrent, Inc., the BitTorrent community had its fair share of growing pains. When BitTorrent was first released in late 2002, it was released in a P2P environment dominated by FastTrack (Kazaa) and eDonkey2000. However the BitTorrent protocol had a distinct advantage.

Around that time, broadband penetration in the United States was just beginning to pick up steam. With faster connections, the marvel of downloading at 5 kb/seconds lost its luster and instead the Internet community began demanding more speed and faster transfers. Along with that demand came ever-growing file sizes: 700 megabyte XviDs, 800 megabyte ISOs, and 4.4 gigabyte DVD-Rips. Although the largest P2P network at the time, FastTrack, did have the ability to share large files, it did so very poorly. FastTrack was designed to transfer small MP3 files, not large movie and program files.

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