A new wave of copyright infringement is hitting the internet allowing you to watch potentially any TV station from anywhere in the world.
Leading the wave of copyright infringement is china based TVUnetworks with its controversial TVUPlayer.
TVUPlayer uses peer to peer technology to stream TV stations over the internet spreading the bandwidth load among users. A full review of the software can be found here at Web TV Hub.
TVUPlayer is not the only peer to peer TV software on the net but what makes it stand out is that it has a high number of copyrighted TV stations available.
For example using TVUPlayer you can watch Comedy Central, CBS, the Disney Channel and more from anywhere in the world. Although the adverts stay intact the channels are still being rebroadcast without permission.
More concerning is that many TV shows, movies and sporting events are licensed for viewing only in a particular area so TVUPlayer is guaranteed to annoy content producers.
Since TVUnetworks is based in China and the fact TVUPlayer uses anonymous peer to peer technology, it may allow TVUnetworks to keep any copyright infringement prosecutions at bay for some time.
TVUPlayer and similar software could be as much of a concern for content producers and TV networks as Napster was for music producers.
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Posted at 1:56PM on Oct 24th 2006 by Konor