An interesting look in the NY times at BitTorrent and video distribution – I want to build myself a mythtv box for my basement.
Meanwhile, the file-sharing networks that are the scourge of the music industry began to have their way with television. Two factors slowed the spread: television isn’t as expensive as recorded music, and its digitized files are significantly larger and harder to maneuver than their music equivalents. But hacking the cable box or stealing pay-cable channels like HBO is a longstanding tradition. “There is a sense of entitlement that once it hits the airwaves it’s free,” said Brandon Burgess, NBC Universal’s executive vice president for digital media, international channels and business development.
Until recently, it was hard for average viewers to act on that sense. But these days all it takes is a broadband connection and a program like BitTorrent.
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