Is Your ISP Blocking File Sharing TV Sites?
You’ve done your research, you’ve checked out a stack of free online TV sites and narrowed your choices down to the one that you know has the best channels and a superior application. So you go and download the viewer software making sure that you carefully follow the installation instructions to the letter. You even go as far to temporarily disable both your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs because you trust the online TV provider. To your amazement everything goes through without a hitch!
P2PTV Basics
Peer-to-peer TV or P2PTV for short, is very similar to file sharing networks such as BitTorrent and Kazaa. But instead of sharing documents and mp3 audio files, video streams are shared amongst clients (peers) in the network. The same basic concept is still at work with P2PTV networks as on other P2P networks.
Centralized servers store the files to be shared and software within the network directs peers to other nearby peers that already have the same file they want to download on their computer somewhere. Either on the hard drive, or in the case of P2PTV, already streaming through their broadband Internet connection.