Digital Music News has reported that BitTorrent Inc, the flagship organisation behind the high capacity file-sharing technology, are launching a 'self-publishing platform' via their bittorrent.com portal. The platform will be designed to allow unsigned and independent artists to post their content for promotional purposes - quite how it will differ from YouTube I'm not certain - but I think BitTorrent hope to use existing relationships with indie labels and aggregators like The Orchard to provide a legit indie music video service.
As previously reported, BitTorrent have moved into the supply of legit music and film content, in essence competing with the many illegal file sharing services that utilize BitTorrent's file sharing technology to enable the sharing of much larger files.