Rainberry, Inc. (doing business as BitTorrent)

BitTorrent is the brand and product family built around the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file distribution protocol, originally invented by Bram Cohen in 2001. The company that commercialized the protocol was formed in the mid-2000s (commonly known as BitTorrent, Inc.); it developed and distributed a number of popular BitTorrent clients and tools, including the BitTorrent client line, the uTorrent client (acquired by the company), BitTorrent Web/uTorrent Web, and earlier experiments such as BitTorrent Sync. The company has historically focused on consumer and developer tools that leverage decentralized, peer-to-peer transfer for file sharing and synchronization.

Over the years the organization has gone through corporate and ownership changes: it acquired the uTorrent client in 2006, introduced products like BitTorrent Sync (peer-to-peer file sync), and broadened its product set to include web-based clients and monetization/advertising features. In 2018 the company and its assets were acqui...