The Future of Cable TV in the BT World
Interesting read on the creator of BitTorrent.
It gets me wondering how boardcast media going to change/evole in the world of peer-to-peer.
Let's say the traditional point-to-multipoint boardcast with a fix schedule is defeated by peer-to-peer technology (Ok, it sounds like a war....). We are talking the like of boardcasting over airwave, copper, satelite and what not you have. Instread, everyone is using a TiVo like kind of PVR with a content distribution backend similar to BT. This allow more freedom to the user; infinite timeshifting of program, multiple viewings, and etc.
The cable company (probably should be called boardcasting agent/media disctributor now) no longer has the concept of channel. Subscriber pay a fee to join the service (which is a huge data network) and for each program they want to watch. The program is distribute to subscriber as it's available. A BT backend with access control (ie who can get it) helps speed the content distribution throughout the system.
Me at home can watch the program whenever I want as soon as it's on my PVR, just like how my TiVo working today. Pay-per-view works much the same way.
Questions/Problems:
- How content publisher make money?
- How commercials work in this environment?
- Should I be allowed to hack my PVR...... it will happen anyway; I can "backup" my downloaded contents, make a copy of the pay-per-view program.
Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect
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It gets me wondering how boardcast media going to change/evole in the world of peer-to-peer.
Let's say the traditional point-to-multipoint boardcast with a fix schedule is defeated by peer-to-peer technology (Ok, it sounds like a war....). We are talking the like of boardcasting over airwave, copper, satelite and what not you have. Instread, everyone is using a TiVo like kind of PVR with a content distribution backend similar to BT. This allow more freedom to the user; infinite timeshifting of program, multiple viewings, and etc.
The cable company (probably should be called boardcasting agent/media disctributor now) no longer has the concept of channel. Subscriber pay a fee to join the service (which is a huge data network) and for each program they want to watch. The program is distribute to subscriber as it's available. A BT backend with access control (ie who can get it) helps speed the content distribution throughout the system.
Me at home can watch the program whenever I want as soon as it's on my PVR, just like how my TiVo working today. Pay-per-view works much the same way.
Questions/Problems:
- How content publisher make money?
- How commercials work in this environment?
- Should I be allowed to hack my PVR...... it will happen anyway; I can "backup" my downloaded contents, make a copy of the pay-per-view program.
Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect
tags to del.icio.us: p2p, tv, opinion
tags to Technorati: p2p, tv, opinion
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