OceanDrive2
21-09-2005, 14:37
A “rising number of people” are using software such as the for-the-moment free Coolstreaming, PPLive and SopCast, a Fudan University student project, to snag shows from stations including HBO, ESPN and MTV and now, “the practice is spreading to Europe, where users have begun tapping into the Chinese services to watch European soccer matches unavailable on their local TV channels,” says the Wall Street Journal.
And this in turn means the genie is out of the bottle, says BigChampagne’s Eric Garland. American pirates could use the technology to stream feeds from US channels, “which could mean U.S. programming beamed free around the world,” the story has him saying.
Called P2P Streaming Internet TV, the main CoolStreaming network site is, significantly, in English where PPLive and SopCast are mainly Chinese, although that'll probably change soon.
Under PPLive & CoolStreaming, "Does anyone know what it is?" - asks a post on SportNetwork. "Is it a program you download and then watch footie channels from all around the world?"
P2P Streaming Internet TV live broadcasting is similar to BitTorrent and, "its core operations are "very simple," says its site. Every node, "periodically exchanges data availability information with a set of partners, and retrieves unavailable data from one or more partners, or supplies available data to partners".
There's no Spyware or Adware, it boasts, emphasising that it supports Real's rm and Microsoft's wmv formats and that it's so far been downloaded more than 300,000 times.
The site also says, "Coolstreaming.org honors the copyright of all video/audio programs."
http://p2pnet.net/story_images/6128.jpg
And this in turn means the genie is out of the bottle, says BigChampagne’s Eric Garland. American pirates could use the technology to stream feeds from US channels, “which could mean U.S. programming beamed free around the world,” the story has him saying.
Called P2P Streaming Internet TV, the main CoolStreaming network site is, significantly, in English where PPLive and SopCast are mainly Chinese, although that'll probably change soon.
Under PPLive & CoolStreaming, "Does anyone know what it is?" - asks a post on SportNetwork. "Is it a program you download and then watch footie channels from all around the world?"
P2P Streaming Internet TV live broadcasting is similar to BitTorrent and, "its core operations are "very simple," says its site. Every node, "periodically exchanges data availability information with a set of partners, and retrieves unavailable data from one or more partners, or supplies available data to partners".
There's no Spyware or Adware, it boasts, emphasising that it supports Real's rm and Microsoft's wmv formats and that it's so far been downloaded more than 300,000 times.
The site also says, "Coolstreaming.org honors the copyright of all video/audio programs."
http://p2pnet.net/story_images/6128.jpg