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Peer-to-Peer Public TV

August 8, 2005, 3:31 pm

If a handful of station officials have their way, public television programs may reach viewers via peer-to-peer networks as well as broadcast airwaves. Some forward-thinking stations, like San Francisco’s KQED, have taken to file sharing as a way to release programs online without running up against the bandwidth constraints that often plague Internet video feeds. (CNET News)

Also see an article from The Chronicle by Brock Read on "swarmcasting," a peer-to-peer technology that lets users create their own Internet TV stations.

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