Online movie content
A big step toward online, on-demand movies & video.
Bittorrent has been one of the more recent -- post-Napster, that is -- file-sharing protocols on the Web. I've seen it used for distributing rock music boots and live shows. Apparently the technology is pretty good, but I've never drunk at that trough so I can't say first-hand. If you wanted, say, the entire show from a given night last fall when Cream had its four-night Albert Hall run, Bittorrent was the place to go.
Now Warner Bros. has decided it better get serious about selling movies and TV programs on the Web, and the studio's going the Bittorrent route, at least initially.
Check out details in wired.com.
The ol' Internet pirates of yore are all getting their privateers' licenses.