BitTorrent is a peer to peer file sharing communications protocol which is a method used to distribute large amounts of data widely as it effectively reduces the cost and burden on any individual source. It likewise provides for redundancy against system problems and allows the original distributor to be free from incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting and bandwidth resources.
Significant traffic on the Internet is attributed to the usage of this particular protocol although the precise amount can be difficult to measure. Numerous compatible BitTorrent clients written in a variety of programming languages and running on different computing platforms exist. BitTorrent clients are programs that download files using the BitTorrent protocol.