A struggle over digital-TV controls heads to the c It took about seven hours to pull down all 500 megabytes of the hour-long episode over his high-speed Internet connection, using the latest file-sharing ... It took about seven hours to pull down all 500 megabytes of the hour-long episode over his high-speed Internet connection, using the latest file-sharing software designed to handle large digital files. . Still, he did get it. And he did watch it. "It's a great show," he said. . To Godwin, the time-consuming download (and the file's poor quality) indicated that the rampant piracy of digitized broadcast programs - a threat Hollywood has long warned against - is hardly imminent...
Source: International Herald Tribune - France |