Now coming to a TV near you: BitTorrent
David Johnson December 8th, 2006
Mark Cuban calls BitTorrent’s acquisition of µTorrent a non-event, but the lightweight client has the potential to take the most popular and powerful p2p platform to any device, anywhere, anytime. Wired’s take today notes that significant shifts are required for the Comcasts and Verizons of the world to get into it, but maybe the significance isn’t in what this will do for mainstream providers, but the ever-growing legions of peer producers who can now unbind their content from pcs.
2 Comments Add your own
1. Tim | December 8th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Here’s one we haven’t heard of, but should:
BitTorrent partnering with cable companies to improve flow of media-on-demand. Think, if there was a torrent client running in each of those neighborhood boxes where the cables hook up; it could really help distribute the load for a cable company
2. Hussman | December 11th, 2006 at 6:39 am
People who use torrent files do not need DVRs. End of story.
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