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CBC to Offer Prime-Time Show on BitTorrent
Date : 2008 03 20 Category : Web News
Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technology News
Will be the first time a North American broadcaster tells the audience to "download, share, and burn to your heart's desire" a TV show using P2P.
Things are getting interesting up North and I'm not talking about the latest in Hockey news.
For years we've heard about how P2P and file-sharing services - BitTorrent in particular - are detrimental to the future of the entertainment industry. Execs from TV broadcasters and movie studios alike regularly parade before lawmakers and anyone else who'll listen with tales about how file-sharing causes unemployment and funds the criminal enterprises of drug dealers and terrorists.
Well now the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the country's national public radio and TV broadcaster, has decided to take a new approach to P2P by using BitTorrent to distribute DRM-free digital copies of the upcoming show Canada's Next Great Prime Minister.