[opendtv] Rejected TV Pilot Thrives on P2P

Hi, 

Craig is gonna love this. 
See: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050629-5053.html?78073
and: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67986,00.html

P2PTV: it's not just for Linux distros 

6/29/2005 2:52:58 PM, by Charles Jade

While the Supreme Court was bringing down the gavel on P2P networks for 
copyright 
infringement, the never aired pilot for Global Frequency was anonymously 
leaked on 
the Internet. 

(...) 

and 

Rejected TV Pilot Thrives on P2P  

By Michael Grebb  |   Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Jun. 27, 2005 PT

How's this for irony? 
A sacked TV pilot about a large number of people who stay in touch through 
an 
underground data network has popped up on ... well, an underground data 
network. 
The WB television network passed on the pilot for Global Frequency, a 
sci-fi 
adventure series based on the graphic novel by English scribe Warren 
Ellis. 
But that didn't stop someone from leaking the pilot on the internet. The 
file 
eventually found its way into the BitTorrent network. 

(...) 

"It changes the way I'll do my next project," said Rogers. If he owned the 
full 
rights, he said, "I would put my pilot out on the internet in a heartbeat. 


(...) 

Greetings, 
-- Jeroen

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