Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: October 9, 2004 12:01:54 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent
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[Note:  Here's an item from Slashdot.  Go to the orignal source to get 
all of the embedded links.  The p2p revolution continues unabated.  Now 
that BitTorrent is fast becoming the leading p2p distribution protocol, 
folks are thinking about new innovated ways to put it to use.  One of 
the things that BitTorrent gets around is lack of multicasting IP 
support by the major ISPs.  DLH]

Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent
Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 05, @07:30PM
from the or-at-least-think-about-doing-so dept.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/05/2232203

Cryofan writes "Mark Pesce, lecturer at the Australian Film Television 
and Radio School (AFTRS) writes  here and  here about using p2p 
networks, specifically bittorrent, to create a grassroots television 
network. He cites as an example the BBC's "Flexible TV" internet 
broadcasting model using that as the core of a "new sort of television 
network, one which could harness the power of P2P distribution to 
create a global television network." Producers of video entertainment 
and news would provide a single copy of a program into the network of 
P2P clients, and the p2p network peers distribute the content 
themselves. Thus, a virtual 'newswiki' where the content is distributed 
bittorrent using some sort of 'trusted peer' or moderator mechanisms as 
a filtering/evaluation mechanism. So what is stopping anyone from doing 
this now? Awareness of the concept, perhaps? Lack of broadband 
connections? Lack of business models for content producers?"


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