[FYI] UK: BBC ponders P2P distribution

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<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35617.html>

BBC ponders P2P distribution  

By Lucy Sherriff  

Posted: 17/02/2004 at 15:43 GMT  

The BBC is to make its programme archive available over a peer-to-
peer network, it said at the International Broadcasting Convention 
last weekend.  

BT, meanwhile, has confirmed that it is in talks with the BBC to find 
a way "of ensuring that their plans have a positive impact on 
broadband Britain".  

The BBC plans to develop a "super electronic programme guide", which 
allows users to record content as they do with a personal video 
recorder, New Media Age reports.  

The announcement comes after confirmation that Auntie* will be making 
its archive accessible via the Internet, and clarifies the mechanism 
by which this will happen.  

[...]  



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