BitTorrent, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, is an American corporation that develops peer-assisted Internet content delivery technology based on the BitTorrent protocol. The company was founded on September 22, 2004 by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent’s Chief Scientist and President respectively. BitTorrent, Inc. also maintains the BitTorrent protocol.
 
The company has announced three main business lines: content aggregation at http://www.bittorrent.com where the company, on February 25, 2007, released a web-based store to distribute movies, TV shows, music and video games. The company also licenses its technology, called BitTorrent DNA (Delivery Network Accelerator), to websites "to add the speed and efficiency of patented BitTorrent technology to their current content delivery infrastructure, significantly reducing bandwidth costs while increasing capacity over standard HTTP delivery solutions." The third product offering is the BitTorrent Software Development Kit (SDK) for consumer electronics and home networking hardware manufacturers.