[UFO Chicago] corporate bit-torrent

[Larry Garfield]

Actually as someone at work pointed out, Kontiki != bittorrent.  It works on 
similar principles, but supports all kinds of things like DRM, user tracking, 
use-only-with-our-program, deletion of the file after X amount of time, etc.

I'll wait for someone to copy the files over to *real* bittorrent, with the 
commercials trimmed out, thanks. :-)

On Monday 14 November 2005 03:03 pm, Jesse Becker wrote:
> --- Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com> wrote:
> > I was reading the nytimes online today when I came across
> > this little item:
> >
> > (read full article here:
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/business/14warner.html>
>
> > )
>
>  <snip>
>
> > WOW.  I never would have thought this possible.  A
> > company will trade off
> > letting people watch old TV for free so long as they
> > agree to share some
> > of the bandwidth to distribute it on a virtual private
> > network.
>
> The files will be re-distrbuted via conventional P2P means
> within $SHORTTIME.
>
>
>
> Jesse Becker
> GPG-fingerprint:  BD00 7AA4 4483 AFCC 82D0  2720 0083 0931 9A2B 06A2
>
>
>
>
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