It identifies content by URL and is designed to integrate seamlessly with the Web.
The protocol was designed in April 2001, implemented and first released 2 July 2001 by programmer Bram Cohen, and is now maintained by BitTorrent, Inc. It is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting and bandwidth resources. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol.
