CANADIAN TV EMBRACES BITTORRENT

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	BITTORRENT TO OFFER HIGH-QUALITY STREAMING Oct 9 2007
	BitTorrent, the San Francisco company whose file-sharing technology has frequently been condemned by film studios (more)
	WEBSITE TO OFFER FREE -- AND LEGAL -- MOVIES Aug 9 2007
	BitTorrent, the controversial video distribution company that has often been linked to Internet piracy, plans (more)
	BITTORRENT GOING LEGIT Feb 26 2007
	BitTorrent, a name that has become anathema to the major movie studios, which have accused (more)

CANADIAN TV EMBRACES BITTORRENT
Thursday, March 20 2008

BitTorrent, the file-sharing technology that is the bane of the movie industry and TV networks, which claim that it facilitates piracy, has been embraced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The CBC announced Wednesday that on March 24th it will become the first major broadcaster in North America to release a high quality, DRM-free copy of a primetime show using BitTorrent technology. The Canadian network said that it plans to make the final episode of its hit TV series Canada's Next Great Prime Minister available completely free the day after its Sunday-night telecast. Michael Geist, Canada's Research Chair of Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, hailed the network's decision, saying that "it shows that Canada's public broadcaster is increasingly willing to experiment with alternative forms of distribution."

MPAA WANTS FCC TO ALLOW 'MANAGED' INTERNET FLOW
Monday, March 3 2008
The Motion Picture Association of America does not want the FCC to hinder Internet service providers' ability to "manage" the flow of bandwidth-heavy downloads on their systems. In a filing with the commission, the studio group said, "Allowing Internet-service providers to address capacity and piracy abuses is the best way of providing consumers with a dynamic, content-rich broadband experience." As reported by Broadcasting & Cable magazine, NBCU said in a separate filing that a "tidal (more)

COMCAST INTERFERING WITH MOVIE AND TV DOWNLOADS, SAYS A.P.
Monday, October 22 2007
Cable giant Comcast is actively blocking file sharing services like BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella, the Associated Press reported on Friday. "When files are being exchanged between two computers, Comcast surreptitiously steps in and gets the two machines to hang up on each other," the wire service reported. While such tactics may interfere with downloading bootlegged movies, they also block legal use of the file-sharing services. "An independent producer distributing his own film, for example, is (more)