http://robingood.disqus.com/Professional Online Publishing: New Media Trends, Communication Skills, Online MarketingenThu, 20 Mar 2008 04:27:55 -0000http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2008/03/19/extending_the_internet_the_peernet.htm#comment-246871<p>From <a href="http://iptv.tmcnet.com/topics/iptv-technology/articles/21510-introducing-p2p-next-european-union-internet-data-tv.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://iptv.tmcnet.com/topics/iptv-technology/articles/21510-introducing-p2p-next-european-union-internet-data-tv.htm">Introducing P2P-Next, a European Union Internet Data and TV Standard</a>: <br><em>"...the European Union has committed €14 million (£10.5 million, $22 million) for a four-year project to create an open source, peer-to-peer BitTorrent-like client called P2P-Next. This client will hopefully become a new standard way for broadcasters to use the Internet as a low-cost distribution platform. Users will have the option of either downloading material or viewing live video streams. The peer-to-peer system will be able to pipe TV programs to set-top boxes and home TV sets. Indeed, the core technical goals of the project are to foster an open standards-based “next-generation” Internet TV distribution system, employing P2P and social interaction."</em></p>SeppThu, 20 Mar 2008 04:27:55 -0000