BBC - iMP - Peer to Peer Television trial for 5000 people

BBC - iMP: "iMP is an application in development offering UK viewers the chance to catch up on TV and radio programmes they may have missed for up to seven days after they have been broadcast, using the internet to legally download programmes to their home computers. iMP uses peer to peer distribution technology (P2P) to legally distribute these programmes. Seven days after the programme transmission date the programme file expires (using Digital Rights Management - DRM - software) and users will no longer be able to watch it. DRM also prevents users emailing the files to other computer users or sharing it via disc."

Freeband Communication - Peer 2 Peer Television is coming

Freeband Communication: "Increasingly software is being designed for networked computer devices (nodes, terminals) that permit other computer devices to utilize locally available storage space, communication bandwidth, processing capacity, and sometimes even hardware components. The advantage of sharing such resources with other nodes on the network is that limitations of individual nodes can be overcome by collaboration with others, or that access can be gained to (multimedia) information that may exist on other nodes. Sharing of computation and communication resources is in particular of importance for power, bandwidth, and cost-constrained networked devices such as hand-held terminal, mobiles, and PDAs." (source: FreeBand, project I-share, Technical University Delft).