World’s first BitTorrent-streamed concert
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Tribler was developed in Holland as a network for a new generation of p2p file sharing with faster down- and uploading — and live video streaming,” p2pnet posted in Juy.
“Instead of the lone hacker, for the first time, it was written by a team of more than a dozen scientists,” Johan Pouwelse, one of the group, told p2pnet.
Then, The Far North Living Lab, started by the Northern Research Institute (Norut), kicked off with a, “spectacular experiment in which they used the (EU funded) Tribler BitTorrent client to stream a 2K resolution film onto the big screen,” said TorrentFreak at the time.
“For that experiment the stream was only broadcasted to a select group of people and not the entire Internet,” says TorrentFreak in a new post.
Today, however, anyone and everyone with an online account will be able to watch as the researchers launch their second BitTorrent streaming experiment — and on a significantly larger scale.
They’ll broadcast a live stream of a live music performance.
“The setup is very simple at the cinema — we have a standard computer connected to audio and video mixers, which then feeds the P2P network,” senior researcher Dr Njål Borch is quoted as saying.
Streaming software is from the EU-funded P2P-Next project and several of the partners are also donating bandwidth to make sure everything runs smoothly, says the story, adding:
“The performance will take place at Aurora Kino in Tromsø as a part of the Insomnia electronic music festiva. To spice things up, the lab is also sending a live feed to the Notch festival in Beijing, which is running in parallel with Insomnia, and to Skjervøy kulturhus in the far north of Norway.”
Tune in for the world premiere of a new soundtrack to Pudovkin’s 1926 film, ‘Mother’ at 5 pm CET.
Meanwhile, back in the dark, dismal world of corporate music, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music are still struggling to come to grips with MP3s.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
p2pnet – The Far North living lab: streaming movies, July 11, 2009
p2pnet – Tribler: New Dutch p2p network, February 21, 2006
TorrentFreak – Movie Theater Streams 2K Resolution Film Using BitTorrent, July 11, 2009
Johan Pouwelse – BitTorrent: chapter and verse, December 14, 2004
TorrentFreak – World’s First BitTorrent Powered Live Streamed Concert, October 24, 2009
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