Though the app is free to download, you’ll have to pay out a one-time fee of $1.99 to send more after the first three files. Receiving files on Shoot will remain free. ©BitTorrent
BitTorrent’s development teams have unveiled their new mobile app, Shoot, to be used for easily sharing photos and videos between users by generating a QR code to scan.
Based on BitTorrent’s Sync peer-to-peer technology, Shoot allows users to share multimedia content quickly and securely, no matter what operating system they are using and with no limit on file size.
The process is simple: once photos or videos are selected on a smartphone or tablet, the app generates a QR code that all the recipient has to do is scan in order to have access.
Though the app is free to download for Android, iOS and Windows Phone, you’ll have to pay out a one-time fee of $1.99 to send more after the first three files. Receiving files on Shoot will remain free.
Promoting security and anonymity for exchanges
This app once again highlights BitTorrent’s desire to create alternative solutions for consumer use. The same holds true for Bleep, its 100% secure and anonymous messaging service that launched in May. No personal information is required when signing up, and all exchanges are done P2P, all messages being systematically coded.
Finally, BitTorrent’s development teams are also working on Maelstrom, a web browser built on decentralized, P2P architecture. Available for download as a beta version on Windows for now, it too promotes security and data confidentiality. The idea is to bypass government censure and surveillance with the help of a browser using exactly the same technology as that of P2P data sharing via the BitTorrent protocol (accessible from bittorrent://), which is supposed to be more efficient and cost-effective than the usual hypertext (HTTP) transfer protocol.
Discover BitTorrent Shoot in video: youtu.be/GOaOycHcNO0
Source: -Relaxnews