BitTorrent Launches Free, Downloadable Music and Film Trailers From South by Southwest 2006

San Francisco - February 21, 2006 - BitTorrent Inc., developer of the world’s most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) application, today announced it will be supporting the 20th Annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Conference and 13th Annual SXSW Film Conference and Festival. To highlight the hundreds of musical acts from around the globe and emerging talents in independent film-making, SXSW and BitTorrent will offer free downloads. The music compilation and movie trailer package will be available on both www.sxsw.com and www.bittorrent.com. SXSWeek takes place March 10-19, 2006 in Austin, Texas.

With its highly efficient P2P publishing tool for delivering large files on the Internet, BitTorrent will enable consumers to quickly download a compilation of songs by artists playing at SXSW, including The Secret Machines, Giant Squid, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Boyskout and hundreds of others. Similarly, SXSW will be offering a collection of movie trailers from this year’s schedule of SXSW Films, which includes over 50 world premieres. With BitTorrent as a publishing platform, it significantly lowers transfer costs and offers increased speed and effectiveness for the downloader.

“With the amount of bandwidth it takes to make such massive digital files available over the Internet to SXSW fans worldwide, we would simply not be able to do it effectively without BitTorrent,” said Scott Wilcox, Chief Technology Officer of SXSW. “This will be the second year that BitTorrent is offering its software and services to make sure that the voices and the work of the independent artist community are available for the whole world to enjoy.”

“South by Southwest has become an important and globally recognized venue for indie artists to showcase their work,” said Ashwin Navin, president of BitTorrent Inc. “BitTorrent, as the free and open standard for cooperative distribution technology, is a natural fit for what everyone hopes to achieve at the festival, and bring the expression to a global audience.”

South by Southwest Music and Media Conference (SXSW) 2006, in its twentieth year, will take place March 15 - 19, 2006. The SXSW Film Conference and SXSW Interactive Festival, both in their thirteenth year, will take place March 10 - 14, 2006 with the Film Festival running from March 10 - 18, 2006 in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.sxsw.com.

About BitTorrent Inc.

BitTorrent is home to the world’s leading open-source file-sharing protocol by the same name, specifically created to overcome the obstacles of transferring large files over the Internet. Created in 2001, BitTorrent is enabling millions of users worldwide to publish, search and download popular digital content quickly, easily and securely. BitTorrent is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit www.bittorrent.com.

BitTorrent is a trademark of BitTorrent Inc.

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