From PC World: BitTorrent has been trying to shake its image as a pirated movie purveyor for years and use its peer-to-peer powers for good, and now you can enjoy its free, legal, and legitimate TV service right on your Android phone.
Called BitTorrent Live, the app isn’t for seeding and sharing, it’s for streaming. Previously available on iOS and streaming TV devices such as Apple TV and FireTV, the video platform offers a wide array of programs ranging from sports to news, tech, and pop culture. The shows it offers aren’t exactly mainstream, but you will find a TWiT channel dedicated to the popular This Week in Tech podcast network, as well as a stream of NASA TV. Additionally, the service features shows dedicated to wealth, extreme sports, and electronic dance music.
The app requires a free login to begin watching, and the service utilizes BitTorrent’s patented peer-to-peer live streaming protocol to eliminate latency issues. As the company explains in a blog post, “BitTorrent Live allows for large audiences to view live video with sub 10-second latency and without the need for an expensive CDN or pre-provisioning. With BitTorrent Live, every viewer is also a broadcaster. This allows the video stream to remain strong and for the broadcast to be as scalable as traditional Over-the-Air TV.”
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