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The BBC has started a trial with several thousand users that will allow them to download favorite TV and radio shows up to seven days after they air. The files are encoded with DRM code that will expire the content after the seven day window. This is, as far as I know, the most ambitious project of its kind and blazes a trail that many will follow I suspect. Imagine the posibilities, a content producer could distrbute the show using P2P maybe driven by bittorrent or a variant thereof, sell their own advertising and cut the networks out of the loop completely. The fracturing continues…

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