BitTorrent Premieres New Live Streaming Platform

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After years of development BitTorrent has now released its live streaming service to the public. BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen is one of the main developers of the new protocol which he expects to revolutionize online streaming. BitTorrent Inc. sees its BitTorrent Live product as the ultimate tool for creators to reach an audience of millions with minimal bandwidth costs.

In 2001 BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen unleashed a small revolution by creating the first widely adopted technology that made it possible to download large videos online in a timely fashion.

A decade later and downloading almost seems like an ancient technology. In 2005 video streaming was brought to the mainstream thanks to YouTube, and not much later it became possible to stream content live over the Internet.

The downside of live streaming is that the more people use it, the most costly it gets and the harder it is to guarantee smooth playback for all viewers.

With BitTorrent Live streaming, Bram Cohen and BitTorrent Inc. will solve these bottlenecks.

After years of development BitTorrent Live launches to the public today, allowing people to stream content via BitTorrent with minimal delays. Unlike traditional live streams, reliability improves as more people tune in.

“It’s based on the principles of the BitTorrent protocol. And it’s designed to make real-time reporting, and open expression available to all: eliminating bandwidth, cost, and infrastructure as broadcast barriers,” BitTorrent Inc.’s Justin Knoll told TorrentFreak. “The more people who tune in, the more resilient your stream will be.”

BitTorrent Live aims to prevent annoying “buffering” issues and long broadcast delays.

“It has been designed from scratch as the perfect means of sharing events to the masses in real-time and with low latencies, but without the astronomical bandwidth requirements that traditionally constrain content creators,” Knoll says.

BitTorrent live Streaming

One of the goals of BitTorrent Live is to make it possible for the public to send video to thousands of people, all over the world. From dissidents reporting on uprisings to soccer moms who want to send video of a game to family and friends, everyone is included.

The main upside compared to centralized live streaming services is that BitTorrent Live won’t shut down or be interrupted when the audience becomes ‘too large’.

“Current offerings fail with large audiences but with BitTorrent Live every viewer that joins a swarm extends its reach by sharing pieces of the video to other viewers. It becomes more robust with larger audiences and there are no costs associated with the addition of users,” Knoll told us.

“We’re aiming for this to be a democratization of streaming technology,” he adds.

Viewing live streams requires people to install the BitTorrent Live app, which is used to share video with others who are watching. The install process is pretty straightforward and the streams we were able to check out worked fine.

Readers who are interested in streaming content can create an account at BitTorrent Live. Some knowledge of video streaming is currently needed to get started, and the service requires a computer as a broadcast station. Mobile apps will follow in the future.

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If everyone is sharing the same movie stream, wouldn't that also imply that someone could write a code to modify the program that would inject in a virus at a key transmission phase of the program? Other than some worries like I stated above, this seems like a good progression of how technology should work.

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Next, we need to be able to harness electricity in certain ways using Tesla technology to be able to tunnel data, much like a Tesla coil can carry different hums in the electrical currents, this implies that data can and does get transmitted. If a program can be made that turns sounds into music and then back again, we can create sound generated software which is hidden in mp3 format. The technology does exist for it actually, proof is that MS Paint alongside many other programs were sent threw a process where the .exe of the files were turned into an audio file,

and here is that link along with a few short clips of the proof.

If any of you have the skills to convert and manage electrical devices into musical algorithms, they can be used to make very complex forms of communication or P2P black market type communication. The sounds could be compressed and a microprocessor can receive and transmit the signal via a simple wall outlet which sends a passive pulse of fragmented electricity via an ElectroTesla Communications Array and it is transmitted out and latches onto nearby power lines. The other receiver of the data will have another receiver like yours and is able to decrypt the encrypted the message from the ElectroTelsa Communications Array (E.T.C.A.). It can be anything from a movie or a word document, the decrypter then feeds it to a data compiler which determines whether or not this is Microsoft, Linux, Mac, or other and then it will transmit the data via a USB cord into your computer.

The E.T.C.A can act as a cloud based storage drive if configured properly. It can connect to both commercial, residential, industrial, and even military if they don't have E.M. dampers turned on. The hardware of E.T.C.A. will include a 3 GB internal HDD with 3 backup solid state drive bays. It will be equipped with an electric to light based communications motherboard which can convert electricity into light (YA DON'T SAY!) which will be pulsed threw Fiber Optics cords connecting to your computer, from the E.T.C.A. and allow for a smooth and speedily transmission of data at super fast speeds. All of these things that I'm talking about...if you can build them...please feel free to use this idea. If it works, "say thank you for the idea", that's all I ask...unless it makes you filthy rich and in that case...contact me and please send me a little sympathy cash every now and then.

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MSPaint Converted into Music...well sort of!!!

Tesla Coils Play "Sweet Home Alabama" = Really Neat!