{"id":196292,"date":"2017-01-28T08:08:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T06:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=196292"},"modified":"2017-01-28T08:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T06:10:25","slug":"bittorrent-live-android-app-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/196292-bittorrent-live-android-app-now-available.html","title":{"rendered":"BitTorrent Live Android App now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BitTorrent has released its <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bittorrent.live&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BitTorrent Live Android App<\/strong><\/a>, which features free live streaming on Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>The app offers \u201calternative voices in news, action sports, live events, entertainment, and cultural programming\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>BitTorrent Live is already available on Apple TV, Fire TV, iOS, and macOS.<\/p>\n<p>The company previously said that the service uses peer-to-peer technology, which it considers a great success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach of our channels are effectively served from a single machine. When you watch a video, there\u2019s a very good chance that you\u2019re not getting it from us &#8211; you\u2019re getting it from your peers,\u201d said BitTorrent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the swarm grows, we don\u2019t have to scale up. We can serve millions of users with negligible server cost. That\u2019s the magic behind the technology and the reason we\u2019re so into what we do here.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/170671-bittorrent-turns-15.html\">BitTorrent turns 15<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitTorrent has released its BitTorrent Live Android App, which offers free live streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[3536,40914],"class_list":["post-196292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-internet","tag-bittorrent","tag-bittorrent-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196296,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196292\/revisions\/196296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}