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The Glass Half Full The Untapped Promise of File Sharing Networks
P2P & Cloud Media SummitLoews Santa Monica Beach HotelMay 6, 2010
Claude [email protected]
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A decade of video on the Internet
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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Explosive growth in internet video is predicted…
Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index, 2009
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Yet people still watch comparatively little Internet video…
~99% of video watched in the US is still TV
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…but this will change as more content becomes available and as the viewing device changes:
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BitTorrent, Inc is:
BitTorrent
mainline
“the world’s original BitTorrent client”
“the world’s favorite BitTorrent client”
BitTorrent is:• A vast network of consumers using software
“clients” and websites to get content and rely on each other for bandwidth
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Market Saturation
Low High
The BitTorrent Ecosystem
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• A global phenomenon
• Dozens of alternative software clients
• Thousands of websites
• Well over 100m active users
* Share assumes dedicated BitTorrent software, not BitTorrent-capable software like
Opera web browsers and P2P clients from Limewire, Xunlei, and others.
Probably well over 200m active BitTorrent-capable clients
100 10k 1M >10M
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Consumers are evidently frustrated with the slow pace of change in the media industries
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Filesharing has been around for a long time…
…and is very likely here to stay
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What’s the problem?
• What will people pay for???• Actually, the fundamentals haven’t changed:
ScarcityValue But, the Internet has changed something very fundamental
about media scarcity…
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What’s the solution?
• Every media industry is looking for how to deal with the “scarcity crisis” brought on by the Internet
• BitTorrent, Inc. is no different• Most important is to extract a rent for
something other than a static set of 1’s and 0’s
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What we’re doing for consumers
• Make BitTorrent much more accessible to consumers– Web-based interface– Secure access from any connected device– Streaming – point/click/watch, not point/click/wait
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What we’re doing for publishers
•Presentation fully in control of publishers
•Access directly to consumers (70+M)
•Access to consumer affinity groups (BT exposes “affinity” networks, not social networks)
•Better stats (for publisher-sanctioned distribution)
•And of course, user-contributed bandwidth
Adapt BitTorrent ecosystem
to Publishers
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The opportunities and challenges presented by the future are exciting
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And BitTorrent is looking to provide some pieces of the way forward
Thankyou