Butter Project

Butter Project or simply Butter is a suite of open-source desktop and mobile applications that allow video-streaming over the BitTorrent protocol.[2] The project was first made public on 23 October 2015.[3] The aim is to create a completely legal base which other applications can use to provide streaming functionality.[3]

Not to be confused with Project Butter.
Butter Project
Repository
Written inHTML, JavaScript, CSS
Operating systemLinux, OS X, Windows, and Android
PlatformNode.js
Available in44 languages
LicenseGNU Affero General Public License[1]
Websitebutterproject.org
Part of a series on
File sharing
Technologies
Video sharing sites
BitTorrent sites
Academic
File sharing networks
P2P clients
Streaming programs
Anonymous file sharing
Development and societal aspects
By country or region
Comparisons

Butter Project was created as a split from Popcorn Time when the latter met legal difficulties — with Butter Project aiming to retain development of only expressly legal and permissible portions of the code-base, relating to video-streaming. The developers have asserted Butter Project will not use any of the popcorntime.io infrastructure.[4] Butter Project is not aimed at allowing copyright infringement, but aims to build the groundworks for streaming video over BitTorrent.[5] By having a legal portion which remains on GitHub the creators hope they can get more developers involved.[5]

By default Butter can play content from VODO which carries free videos, but will also be configurable to allow for custom sources of video.[6]

References
  1. "butter-desktop/LICENSE at devel · butterproject/butter-desktop". GitHub. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  2. "Popcorn Time Shutdown Was The Result Of Outsiders, Site Suffered DNS Attacks And Tempering; Developers Launch Project Butter". Yibada. 25 October 2015. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. "Video Streaming Service Popcorn Time Has Shut Down In Lieu Of Project Butter". The Inquisitr News. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  4. Mic. "Butter Project Streaming Service and the Latest On Popcorn Time Shutdown". Mic. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  5. Williams, Owen. "Popcorn Time creators back away from copyrighted content with 'Project Butter'". The Next Web. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  6. "Makers of Popcorn Time launch Butter Project - gHacks Tech News". gHacks Technology News. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.