MASHABLE - NEW YORK —Periscope co-founder Kayvon Beykpour was at TechCrunch Disrupt Tuesday, talking about his app, Android and of course, the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight.
TechCrunch’s Sarah Lane opened the interview by asking Beykpour about the much-discussed Periscoping of the “fight of the century,” as well as the larger discussion about the platform in the context of piracy.
Beykpour thinks some of the discussion has been overblown. “There was an order of magnitude more articles written about Game of Thrones on Periscope than there were steams,” he said.
Still, Beykpour admitted that the MayPac fight was a slightly different phenomenon.
He admitted that the current process mandated by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which requires a provider take down content within 24 hours of being notified, doesn’t really work for live content.
“We’re totally open to conversing about types of tooling we can build to improve the process,” he said.
He also said — as I mentioned in my experience watching the fight via Periscope — that the app isn’t really ideal for something like Game of Thrones or a movie. It’s much better as a social and interactive experience.
Beykpour also put an end to some of the speculation from Saturday night that frequent hearting (where users like a stream by tapping the screen) had any impact on whether Periscope would take down a stream or not. “It is not part of our heuristic,” he said, but admitted it was “hilarious” to see viewers (sometimes in multiple languages) discourage people from hearting in an attempt to preserve the stream.
Android in the works
The biggest question we get at Mashable anytime we write about Periscope: When is it coming for Android?
Don’t worry, an Android version is in the works. “Of course we’re working really hard on Android and we’re really close. We’ve got a beta that we’re using,” Beykpour said.
Still, it’s important to remember that the Periscope team is still very small. The group has grown from five people to 13 in the last month and a half — but that’s still an impossibly tiny number.
“We spent a year building the iOS app,” the co-founder said. “We can’t just snap our fingers and make [Android] appear.”
Beykpour also noted that the Android app wouldn’t look exactly like the iOS app — because it is important to build to the specific strengths of the platform.
He also hinted that a future Periscope update might have a mapping feature that will help users discover streams in different parts of the world.
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