Other products include its Bundle “pay-gated” content distribution service and Bleep for messaging. First, BitTorrent continues to hone and release a number of products that test the waters for how and where P2P services can make money. Indeed, the the move to general availability and premium pricing - which follows through on a preview BitTorrent offered last year while it tested Sync 2.0 - is a far cry from BitTorrent’s roots as a network for sharing copyrighted content illegally.Īnd it comes at the meeting of two currents. And BitTorrent argues that it still can make a margin despite the big price cut, since it doesn’t rely on using third-party or building its own cloud infrastructure. The Pro product’s sub-$40 charge - with volume-based discounts - applies to accounts, not devices, and is a significant discount to $89 for Microsoft’s cloud offering and $99 for Dropbox. “It demonstrates that P2P technology can work very well in this category,” he says.īut having said that, the company knows that it still has some convincing to do, so it’s going to, in the words of Pounds, “be very agressive on price.” To date, there have been over 10 million downloads of the alpha and beta versions of Sync, generating 145 petabytes of data, VP of product management Erik Pounds told TechCrunch in an interview. As part of that, BitTorrent is introducing a business-focused Pro tier starting at $39.99 per user, per year. Sync, the desktop and mobile file synchronising service that BitTorrent presents as an alternative to cloud-based services like Dropbox, is today exiting beta as Sync 2.0. BitTorrent is today taking one more step ahead in its bid to create a revenue-generating business out of its peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
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