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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October 24th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Just wanted to bring attention to the fact that CIPPIC has brought this to the attention of the Canadian Gov and the CRTC in the past, please see:
http://p2peducation.pbworks.com/FrontPage
When they were asking for input on that educational website, I emailed off this EU government funded project.
1. Tribler Video Streaming
This software uses Peer-2-Peer technology for streaming live video feeds across the Internet to millions of users.The University developers are currently involved in the European Union’s 19M€ R&D project into P2P-Next.
2.Government
European Union offers 14M€ grant for 14 P2P research
The European Union will pay 14M€ to P2P-Next, which is a 4-year technical trial of a content delivery platform for new media which would run on a wide range of consumer devices. Their mandate is to develop an “open source, efficient, trusted, personalized, user-centric, and participatory television plus media delivery mechanism with social and collaborative connotation using the emerging Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm, which takes into account the existing EU legal framework.” P2P-Next is gathering of industrial partners, media content providers, and universities, which include the BBC, Delft University of Technology, the European Broadcasting Union, Lancaster University, Markenfilm, Pioneer and the VTT technical Research Centre of Finland.
The conglomerate aims, inter alia, to help P2P shed it’s dubious reputation as an illegal file sharing mechanism, claiming that “today [P2P] is considered by many as an efficient, reliable, and low cost mechanism for distributing any media file or live stream…[b]roadcasters and content providers consider P2P as a future-proof, universal, and ubiquitous two-way (interactive) distribution mechanism.”
Now, if I may rewrite some of Jons words for the Canadians among us here:
“Meanwhile, back in the dark, dismal” corner of Canada, too bad for you. No government funding, no projects, no innovation, no jobs, no reaching the masses with this evil called P2P thanks to our government, Industry Canada and the CRTC.