FireFox Set To Launch AllPeers Torrent Extension Today

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Ars Technica reports that "P2P startup AllPeers announced today that it would be closing its doors due to insufficient growth. "We are tremendously proud of the product that our team has built, and we remain convinced of the potential of adding social features like file-sharing to the web browser," the company wrote on its blog today. "However, we have not achieved the kind of growth in our user base that our investors were expecting, and as a result we are not able to continue operating the service."

The UK-based company first launched its beta Firefox extension in 2006, which allowed users to share files with each other from within the browser. AllPeers used the BitTorrent protocol to share files and was compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. The company even received a round of venture capital funding from Mangrove Capital Partners and Index Ventures—the same firms that backed Skype.

Interest was high when AllPeers first launched, but soon went flat due to hefty competition from other P2P apps...."

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