![]() However, unless users explicitly tell BitTorrent, “We do not know who they are, so we do not know exactly what the split is between consumer and business users.”Īs of August there were already 10 million installs of Sync, and now the challenge is to get some of those shifted to paying for the service, as well as sign on new converts who would like to use a peer-to-peer encrypted architecture, enabled through constant Internet connectivity, keeping assets on premise instead of putting data into the cloud. We see traffic increase significantly during the work week, which can can be attributed to the amount it is being used in businesses.” “Another is that the Sync client reports the amount of data it has synced back to us. “We’ve asked our community multiple times about how they are using Sync and the we’ve received an overwhelming number of responses from users in business environments,” says a spokesperson in answer to a question about how many enterprise users there are of Sync. The fact that BitTorrent has a lot of enterprise users already is quite interesting, given the reputation BitTorrent has as being popular among individual consumers. Taken together, the Sync updates and the paygates underscore how BitTorrent is trying to capitalize on those who are already regular users of BitTorrent and of Sync: enterprises and power Torrenters. It also offers “plus” versions of the BitTorrent and uTorrent clients and licenses some of its technology. (Paygates let authors, musicians and other creatives add different kinds of paid tiers for portions of the content that they offer on BitTorrent.) BitTorrent takes a 10% cut on these. The news comes two days after BitTorrent announced that it was opening its Bundle paygate services to all interested parties. In the works for more than a year (since the release of a Sync beta), this will be the first time that BitTorrent has introduced a paid tier to Sync, although it has several other revenue-generating products: You can see BitTorrent’s full breakdown below.Įrik Pounds, VP of product management for BitTorrent, tells me that Sync 2.0 will be coming out sometime in early 2015. And, expanding on some of the file-sending functionality of Sync, BitTorrent will introduce a new, as-yet unnamed mobile app focused specifically on large files.Īs point of price comparison, BitTorrent says services from Dropbox, Microsoft and Google that are comparable to Sync cost from $83.99/year and up. BitTorrent is taking the wraps off the next phase of its strategy to turn its peer-to-peer file sharing network into a revenue-generating business, and compete more squarely against cloud-based services like Dropbox. In 2015, it will move its file-synchronising product - fittingly called Sync - out of beta as Sync 2.0, introducing a new “Pro” tier in the process for $39.99/year.
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