April 29, 2006
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The Future is Here: p2p TV streaming
p2p news / p2pnet:- Communist China, already in trouble with
American entertainment and software cartels for failing to put a stop
to the thriving underground counterfeit production industry, is also
now under attack for its burgeoning p2p streaming TV enterprises.And
ironically, for a change, commercial p2p companies aren’t in the firing
line. Instead, the likes of Microsoft and RealNetworks are named as the
preferred delivery vehicles.A ?rising number
of people? are using software such as the for-the-moment free
Coolstreaming, PPLive and SopCast, a Fudan University student project,
to snag shows from stations including HBO, ESPN and MTV and now, ?the
practice is spreading to Europe, where users have begun tapping into
the Chinese services to watch European soccer matches unavailable on
their local TV channels,? says the Wall Street Journal.And
this in turn means the genie is out of the bottle, says BigChampagne?s
Eric Garland. American pirates could use the technology to stream feeds
from US channels, ?which could mean U.S. programming beamed free around
the world,? the story has him saying.Called
P2P Streaming Internet TV, the main CoolStreaming network site is,
significantly, in English where PPLive and SopCast are mainly Chinese,
although that’ll probably change soon.
