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CBC Televison among the first to play catch-up

March 27th 2008 — Text — Leave a Comment

CBC News has posted a story about the CBC Television decision to distribute Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister via the bittorrent p2p protocol.
Turns out a lot of downloaders were surprised to discover that Rogers and Bell shape traffic on legal downloads. Many more familiar bittorrent users were surprised to discover that CBC isn’t very [...]

CBC To Release Program DRM-Free Via BitTorrent

March 20th 2008 — Aside — Leave a Comment

CBC To Release Program DRM-Free Via BitTorrent — Michael Geist writes:
‘Sources indicate that the CBC is set to become the first major North American broadcaster to freely release one of its programs without DRM using BitTorrent.  This Sunday, CBC will air Canada Next Great Prime Minister.  The following day, it plans to freely release a [...]

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