Comments on: World’s first BitTorrent-streamed concert http://www.p2pnet.net/story/30233 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ottawa Gal http://www.p2pnet.net/story/30233/comment-page-1#comment-987735 Ottawa Gal Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:08:39 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=30233#comment-987735 Just wanted to bring attention to the fact that CIPPIC has brought this to the attention of the Canadian Gov and the CRTC in the past, please see: http://p2peducation.pbworks.com/FrontPage When they were asking for input on that educational website, I emailed off this EU government funded project. 1. Tribler Video Streaming This software uses Peer-2-Peer technology for streaming live video feeds across the Internet to millions of users.The University developers are currently involved in the European Union's 19M€ R&D project into P2P-Next. 2.Government European Union offers 14M€ grant for 14 P2P research The European Union will pay 14M€ to P2P-Next, which is a 4-year technical trial of a content delivery platform for new media which would run on a wide range of consumer devices. Their mandate is to develop an “open source, efficient, trusted, personalized, user-centric, and participatory television plus media delivery mechanism with social and collaborative connotation using the emerging Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm, which takes into account the existing EU legal framework.” P2P-Next is gathering of industrial partners, media content providers, and universities, which include the BBC, Delft University of Technology, the European Broadcasting Union, Lancaster University, Markenfilm, Pioneer and the VTT technical Research Centre of Finland. The conglomerate aims, inter alia, to help P2P shed it's dubious reputation as an illegal file sharing mechanism, claiming that “today [P2P] is considered by many as an efficient, reliable, and low cost mechanism for distributing any media file or live stream...[b]roadcasters and content providers consider P2P as a future-proof, universal, and ubiquitous two-way (interactive) distribution mechanism.” Now, if I may rewrite some of Jons words for the Canadians among us here: "Meanwhile, back in the dark, dismal" corner of Canada, too bad for you. No government funding, no projects, no innovation, no jobs, no reaching the masses with this evil called P2P thanks to our government, Industry Canada and the CRTC. ;) Just wanted to bring attention to the fact that CIPPIC has brought this to the attention of the Canadian Gov and the CRTC in the past, please see:

http://p2peducation.pbworks.com/FrontPage

When they were asking for input on that educational website, I emailed off this EU government funded project.

1. Tribler Video Streaming
This software uses Peer-2-Peer technology for streaming live video feeds across the Internet to millions of users.The University developers are currently involved in the European Union’s 19M€ R&D project into P2P-Next.

2.Government
European Union offers 14M€ grant for 14 P2P research

The European Union will pay 14M€ to P2P-Next, which is a 4-year technical trial of a content delivery platform for new media which would run on a wide range of consumer devices. Their mandate is to develop an “open source, efficient, trusted, personalized, user-centric, and participatory television plus media delivery mechanism with social and collaborative connotation using the emerging Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm, which takes into account the existing EU legal framework.” P2P-Next is gathering of industrial partners, media content providers, and universities, which include the BBC, Delft University of Technology, the European Broadcasting Union, Lancaster University, Markenfilm, Pioneer and the VTT technical Research Centre of Finland.

The conglomerate aims, inter alia, to help P2P shed it’s dubious reputation as an illegal file sharing mechanism, claiming that “today [P2P] is considered by many as an efficient, reliable, and low cost mechanism for distributing any media file or live stream…[b]roadcasters and content providers consider P2P as a future-proof, universal, and ubiquitous two-way (interactive) distribution mechanism.”

Now, if I may rewrite some of Jons words for the Canadians among us here:
“Meanwhile, back in the dark, dismal” corner of Canada, too bad for you. No government funding, no projects, no innovation, no jobs, no reaching the masses with this evil called P2P thanks to our government, Industry Canada and the CRTC.

;)

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