[opendtv] Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:52:53 -0400
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.
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?"
...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/05/2232203
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