BitTorrent Intros Live Streaming Service That Makes Buffering A Thing Of The Past

BitTorrent Intros Live Streaming Service That Makes Buffering A Thing Of The Past

Torrents have been used over the years mainly as a way to effectively share content with other users who are also interested in that piece of content, using all the bandwidth of the connected parties in order to deliver that content to one another. Videos, photos, e-books and software have all be download and uploaded on torrents for years, but a new service may change how we look at torrents forever.

BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen is announcing today a live streaming video service that he believes will revolutionize the online streaming world. BitTorrent Live allows people to stream content through BitTorrent and the more people that tune in, the better the quality becomes, which is the complete opposite of traditional online video streams.

Since the service will use those watching in order to help strengthen its broadcast, this will effectively eliminate the need for the person who is hosting the video to worry about bandwidth costs as well as infrastructure barriers. This is quite an important technology as, in theory, it could make the days of buffering online videos a thing of the past, that is, as long as there are enough people watching the same thing you are.

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US court to decide whether an IP address identifies a person

Most copyright holders who start legal action aren’t looking to go to court. They’re looking for out-of-court settlements; easy money. Many copyright-focused lawsuits are started en masse, with little more than IP addresses to identify the plaintiffs. For instance, Malibu Media, an adult-movie studio, has started 349 mass lawsuits in 2012 alone, with all of them ending in out-of-court setllements. Except for five anonymous defendants who filed a motion that these lawsuits were primarily for extortion and did not accurately describe how BitTorrent woks. Pennsylvania District Court Judge Michael Baylson has written a memorandum that, ultimately, “a trial are necessary to find the truth.” To court we go! According to the memo:

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