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Pirating Cable-TV Content.

Publication: Mondaq Business Briefing
Publication Date: 12-SEP-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
First it was CD. Then it was DVD. Now, it is cable-TV.

Recently, a couple of specialized computer programs have been developed to allow P2P streaming of cable-TV contents, such as ESPN and Discovery Channel, over the Internet. Anyone can now log on to the internet and watch ESPN without paying a dime to a cable-TV operator or ESPN.

P2P Streaming

Cable-TV streaming is not rocket science. The equipments required are a TV capture card, a personal computer and a reasonable broadband Internet connection. A subscriber of ESPN, for example, connects his set-top box to a personal computer through the TV capture card. Then the personal computer, running specialized computer programs, coverts cable-TV contents into Internet protocol (IP) data and broadcasts (streams) out to...

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