The company, best known for its file-sharing protocol, "torrent", positioning future update service BitTorrent Sync as the murderer of cloud services. Version 1.4 should be, according to the developers, finally turning to face the user and to simplify the process of work, namely, to enable direct transfer of files from one person to another.
The process of sharing files over a network, by modern standards, rather archaic and cumbersome. We came, as it seemed, he was replaced by cloud storage like Dropbox or Google Drive also has two very lack - a limited amount of data that can be stored by every user and the possible hacking or any other unauthorized access to the information of third parties. The creators of the most popular protocol in the digital age, the company BitTorrent, have addressed radically. Their technology BitTorrent Sync - it's brilliant in its simplicity, the system transfer and synchronize data of any size directly between two devices.
The technology works as follows. The person to whom you want to forward to your computer files or folder to another user simply sends you the link. The recipient clicks on it, then the sender will have to confirm the shipment. At this point the user part ends and the data is transmitted through the well-established BitTorrent P2P-protocol. No sharing services, advertising banners and other questionable content visual debris familiar to fans download anything from the web.
Previous versions of Sync used to send requests and confirmations complex and long text and numeric codes that seriously complicates the work with the program. Even though non-obvious interface, the number of downloads BitTorrent Sync exceeded ten million users and transferred about 80 petabytes of data.