Bittorrent Live, Efficient P2P Video Streaming

When you look at today’s TV streaming offerings on the Internet, you will always see contents being served by the hosting site to all connecting users. Companies need the necessary infrastructure to make sure the contents can be streamed to all of their users in good quality (with good quality meaning an uninterrupted viewing experience and a good visual quality).

Bittorrent Live could change that distribution model for the better, at least for content publishers. The idea is simple but effective: Instead of streaming content from one site to all connected users, the users’ PCs are used to stream the contents as well to one another. The effect? A 99% data transfer offload for site operators that allows millions of users to watch the stream at the same time with a latency in the five seconds range.

This opens up new possibilities, as it allows smaller publishers to stream their contents to a larger audience without going broke on the bandwidth and hardware costs. Existing publishers who already stream to millions could significantly reduce their bandwidth bill if they’d utilize the technology.

The only catch? Users need to install and run Bittorrent Live on their system before they can start viewing content that is streamed that way. The operators recommend an upload speed of at least 2Mb to watch the streams, which could be a issue for some users who do not have that much upload bandwidth available. These issues could very well keep the technology from ever taking off. BitTorrent could however mitigate the distribution factor by distributing BitTorrent Live with popular clients such as uTorrent.

Bittorrent Live will be made available for free for publishers who want to stream their contents. Publishers who want to show ads in the streams are asked to pay licensing fees to do so.

Bittorrent Live is available as a beta version for Windows, Mac and Linux.

For now, it is just a beta version. You can access a few sample streams here on the official site. Keep in mind though that most are off air most of the time. The beta client comes without preferences to change ports or connection speeds. It is likely that the final version will offer those features.

Will Bittorrent Live kill television? It is highly unlikely that it will. The technology certainly has its appeal, but the software requirements make it a hard sale.

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Popular Bittorrent Website BTJunkie Closes Its Doors

Users of the popular Bittorrent indexing website BTJunkie who try to access the site’s content in a web browser are not seeing the usual site layout, but a goodbye message instead. The message states that the site operators have decided to close down the service voluntarily after more than seven years of operation.

No reason other than that is provided, but it is likely that the decision is linked to recent events, in particular the Pirate Bay case in Sweden where founders of the site recently lost the final appeal and are looking at prison time, and the Megaupload takedown and the fallout that followed.

The announcement on the BTJunkie website reads:

This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time to move on. It’s been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!

BTJunkie, according to Alexa web statistics, was one of the top 400 Internet websites that was visited by millions of visitors per month. Much of the appeal of the site came from the fact that all of the site’s contents were publicly accessible.

It is likely that users, after a moment of grieving, will move on to other popular Bttorrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Kat.ph, or private Bittorrent sites that require an invitation to get access to the site’s contents. The very same sites have also benefited recently from the closure of Megaupload and other file hosting websites.

BTJunkie users who feel lost right now should check out the threads over at Reddit and Torrentfreak for a list of alternative sites.

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