BitTorrent Share to compete against DropBox in the game of cloud storage

With cloud computing on the rise, BitTorrent Inc., has created its own service to compete with DropBox and other file sharing services. BitTorrent Inc. is widely known for its peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, BitTorrent. Thursday marked an important day for the company with the launch of Share. With other services just as DropBox, SkyDrive, and Box.net available, Share will have some competition, however Share offers its users what others cant.

BitTorrent will be relying on Amazon's EC2 and S3 services to allow for this unparalleled file sharing experience. Files are cached on the cloud so users don’t have to be online together to complete transfers. Once a file is successfully received by all recipients, it will be removed from the cloud. Share is currently available in an alpha stage of development and only for Windows users. Mac users will be able to test the service in an alpha release of µTorrent.