Login - BitTorrent Live. BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV. Television is going the way of the dinosaur, and the deadly comet is called BitTorrent Live.
Today, Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing protocol, demoed his latest creation at the SF MusicTech Summit. BitTorrent Live lets any content owner or publisher stream video to millions of people at good quality and with just a few seconds of latency…for free or cheap. Sports, news events, simulcast TV shows, education, video conferencing, or uncensored war zone broadcasts — this technology will power the future of video.
“My goal is to kill off television” Cohen said during the SF MusicTech demo session I hosted. P2PTV. The term P2PTV refers to peer-to-peer (P2P) software applications designed to redistribute video streams in real time on a P2P network; the distributed video streams are typically TV channels from all over the world but may also come from other sources.
The draw to these applications is significant because they have the potential to make any TV channel globally available by any individual feeding the stream into the network where each peer joining to watch the video is a relay to other peer viewers, allowing a scalable distribution among a large audience with no incremental cost for the source. Technology and use[edit] The need for a tracker can also be eliminated by the use of distributed hash table technology.
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