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[ NNSquad ] CBC to distribute TV program via BitTorrent
------- Forwarded Message From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> To: "ip" <ip@v2.listbox.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:52:48 -0700 Subject: [IP] Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs ________________________________________ From: victormarks@gmail.com [victormarks@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Victor Marks [vxm@miglia.com] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:23 AM To: David Farber Cc: Brett Glass; David P. Reed; Kenneth_Mayer@dell.com; gep2@terabites.com; scott@bluespike.com; Rbohn@ucsd.edu; griffin@onehouse.com Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs Dave, For IP if you wish, Here's an interesting development: http://www.cbc.ca/nextprimeminister/blog/2008/03/canadas_next_great_prime_minis.html CBC is going to distribute one of their television shows, "Canada's Next Great Prime Minister", via bittorrent. So, besides the independent music distribution done by artists and the linux distribution, now legitimate non-copyright-infringing television shows will be available via bittorrent. Bummer for the customers of ISPs that inject RST to monkey up bittorrent for their customers. Regards, Victor - ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------- End of Forwarded Message