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BitTorrent Live

Live streaming video. iPhone, Apple TV, MacOS. Android soon.

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Erik Schwartz
@eriks · VP Media - Live
We are US only for now. This is largely an issue of where we have programming agreements.

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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
They announced details of BitTorrent Live back and May. Today, it's live for Apple TV. Android, iOS, and OS X apps are coming shortly. Tangent: It's so odd to me that Apple doesn't provide a way to view Apple TV apps on the web. Creators have to awkwardly instruct users to "search Apple TV for ". Reminds me of AOL keywords back in the day. 😜
Pim de Witte
@pimdewitte
I'm so confused - isn't this the same thing as popcorn time? Streaming torrents? I'm assuming it won't be legal also?
I wonder if there's gonna be an sdk allowing developers to build p2p live streaming right into their apps
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Erik Schwartz
@eriks · VP Media - Live
Hi everyone, I am Erik. I work on the Live team at BitTorrent. Happy to answer any questions. BitTorrent Live is the first product we’ve built on top of a new live streaming protocol invented by Bram Cohen. We built BitTorrent Live in order to solve some serious problems in the live streaming space. Specifically cost of scaling and live streaming performanc… See more
Andrew Richard
@basictechy · Software Engineer and Machine learning
Coming soon....