BitTorrent launches legal streaming service for iOS and Android

BitTorrent is strongly associated by users with torrent-trackers and downloading pirated content. However, the same name the company intends to get rid of dubious reputation broadcast absolutely legal audio and video content to mobile devices and TVs.

We are talking about streaming BitTorrent Now service. It will provide access to legal music videos and a wide range of users with devices on iOS and Android, or set-top box Apple TV. However, currently available exclusively to download an application for the mobile operating system from Google.

BitTorrent Now the concept has a significant difference from the giants like Netflix and Spotify. Among the content service can not find work by popular artists, new movies and popular TV shows. Instead, BitTorrent Now focus on the promotion of unknown talents to the public. Thus, all the content will enter the service exceptional effort of its creators.

The rest of BitTorrent Now slightly different from other streaming services and offers exactly the same standard search capabilities and music and video playback. In the future, BitTorrent plans to add support for VR services and other types of content that users will want to share. Again, everything will take place within the legal distribution of custom materials.

It should be noted that the new service did not come out of nowhere. BitTorrent for several years Bundle creates a platform having a similar purpose. It allows musicians to share the results of his work, and even includes material of a number of well-known performers. The number of downloads from the Bundle recently reached 200 million, and the leaders of their number became independent groups.

Nevertheless, the prospects for BitTorrent Now remain uncertain, although the desire to give way in the life of musicians and creators of the video is very, very commendable. The fact that all the necessary infrastructure for creative people have long been established. Music appears on SoundCloud and Bandcamp, and the video is loaded correctly on YouTube, Vimeo, and even to Facebook.

As noted above, BitTorrent Now the app is currently only available for Android. Versions for iOS and Apple TV on the way. In addition, data are still passed only with the company's servers, and support for peer to peer data transfer from one user to another until only in the plans.