![]() “Sending content over the airwaves excels…if you want space aliens to watch your content.” If you want to cheaply reach humans across the globe, summon BitTorrent Live. Cohen says he’s already been approached by TV studios who want BitTorrent Live to bring their shows online cheaply. That’s fast enough to support interactive elements like chat and Twitter feeds. The only catch is that viewing BitTorrent Live content requires a one-time download, and after that is just works quietly through your browser.Ĭohen tells me those not looking to profit from their streams will be able to utilize BitTorrent Live at no cost, “It fits the DNA of what BitTorrent is about because it’s open and free.” Meanwhile, those showing ads will pay a cheap licensing fee rather than the “millions of dollars” they pay now.Īn SDK to work with the proprietary protocol is in the works.BitTorrent is now asking content publishers to contact them at test their tech. Cohen tells me he’s spent 3 years hacking on BitTorrent Live, “It’s a difficult engineering problem, and I’ve figured it out.” Now the protocol can offload 99% of the data transfer to users and achieve just a 5-second delay even with millions of viewers. This disruptive P2P tech could open live streaming to publishers of any scale, such as independent artists, educators, and journalists.īitTorrent Live sidesteps the infrastructure cost by having viewers stream the content to each other like they’d torrent a download instead of pulling video from a central source. Established streaming vendors like Ustream and Livestream who charge per viewer and have limits should be afraid too. Netflix and Hulu could potentially use BitTorrent Live to reduce their costs. With BitTorrent Live, soon it won’t just be The White House and the Super Bowl streaming their content. The shift to online streaming has been stalled, though, because of the cost of set up, bandwidth, and servers compared to television infrastructure like cable wires and satellites that are already bought and paid for. ![]() Afterwards he explained to me in rhyme, “Television’s physical infrastructure is inevitably going to go away, but TV as a mode of content consumption is here to stay.” Essentially, people love what they see on television, but want it accessible from the web. ![]() “My goal is to kill off television” Cohen said during the SF MusicTech demo session I hosted. Sports, news events, simulcast TV shows, education, video conferencing, or uncensored war zone broadcasts - this technology will power the future of video. Today, Bram Cohen, the author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing protocol, demoed his latest creation at the SF MusicTech Summit.īitTorrent 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. Obviously we’ll be happy to share more technical details in due course, but only once the technology reaches a level of maturity that it makes sense to share.Television is going the way of the dinosaur, and the deadly comet is called BitTorrent Live. “Bram’s methods to manage network reconfiguration wrap rerouting together with a novel approach to congestion control. ![]() While P2P live streaming isn't exactly new, Cohen's method is said to work with low latencies and making sure the network doesn't get clogged up. Companies are using it as a way of saving bandwidth costs and instead of delivering a large file many times, a company using P2P technology only needs enough bandwidth to seed the files before letting those who have already downloaded the files take over.īitTorrent creator, Bram Cohen, has now come up with a way to use his BitTorrent technology for live streaming purposes, though he has had to remake the BitTorrent protocol has for live streaming purposes. BitTorrent Creator Demos New P2P Live Streaming TechnologyīitTorrent has been around for ages, and has dramatically changed the way we get content.
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