[IP] Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 9, 2004 12:01:54 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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