Butter Project

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Not to be confused with Project Butter.
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Butter Project or simply Butter is a suite of desktop and mobile applications that allow video-streaming over the BitTorrent protocol.[1] The project was first made public on the 23rd of October 2015.[2] The aim is to create a completely legal base which other applications can use to provide streaming functionality.[2]

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.[3] Butter Project is not aimed at allowing copyright infringement, but aims to build the groundworks for streaming video over BitTorrent.[4] By having a legal portion which remains on GitHub the creators hope they can get more developers involved.[4]

By default Butter can play content from VODO which carries free videos, but will also be configurable to allow for custom sources of video.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Popcorn Time Shutdown Was The Result Of Outsiders, Site Suffered DNS Attacks And Tempering; Developers Launch Project Butter". Yibada. 2015-10-25. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  2. ^ a b "Video Streaming Service Popcorn Time Has Shut Down In Lieu Of Project Butter". The Inquisitr News. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  3. ^ Mic. "Butter Project Streaming Service and the Latest On Popcorn Time Shutdown". Mic. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  4. ^ a b Williams, Owen. "Popcorn Time creators back away from copyrighted content with 'Project Butter'". The Next Web. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  5. ^ "Makers of Popcorn Time launch Butter Project - gHacks Tech News". gHacks Technology News. Retrieved 2016-03-13.

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