Roll Your Own Television Network Using Bittorrent

How to use P2p networks, specifically Bittorrent, to create a grassroots TV network. Writer Mark Pesce cites as an example the BBC’s “Flexible TV” internet broadcasting model using that as the core of a “new sort of TV network, one which could harness the power of P2P distribution to create a global TV network.”

All of this can be summed up in a very neat phrase: as broadband succeeds, broadcasting will fail.

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