Android “BitTorrent Certified” box wants to bring torrents to your TV

Android “BitTorrent Certified” box wants to bring torrents to your TV:

The provenance of the BBK BitTorrent Certified Box is highly questionable.

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We all know about BitTorrent. Many people often (but not always) use the powerful file-sharing protocol to download unauthorized content from—to put it mildly—gray-zone torrent sites. Attempts to shut the sites down have largely proven futile, as The Pirate Bay has shown.
And lo, amidst all the craziness of this week’s CES did a sketchy BitTorrent box appear, claiming to be the world’s first “BitTorrent-certified Android set-top box.” The BBK BitTorrent Certified Box is now for sale for €90 ($117)—plus shipping—to only a select list of European Union countries. The apparent goal of this little box, which is a little smaller than a Mac mini, is to make it easier to watch torrented files on a TV.
Announced Wednesday by TorrentFreak, the box purports to be an Android-powered device and “is the first one that can also stream content downloaded through uTorrent and BitTorrent clients on the local network.” The product also proudly proclaims: “Surf and Download anonymously with free VPN trial.”

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