NTL And BitTorrent Announce P2P File-Sharing Trial

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13 Feb 2006

Major UK consumer broadband providers NTL are teaming up with BitTorrent, the developers of the world's most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) application.

The download service will offer a large variety of licensed video content for purchase in the UK, including popular films, music videos and TV programmes.

BitTorrent's enormous bandwidth-hogging qualities has proved expensive for some Internet providers, but NTL are looking to speed delivery and reduce network costs by using CacheLogic's caching technology which stores frequently downloaded files within the NTL network.

NTL believes that this combination will provide ultra-fast download speeds of broadcast quality content - or, as Kevin Baughan, their director of network strategy liked to call it, a "transformational video downloading experience."

BitTorrent is already firmly established as the de facto tool of choice for connoisseurs of pirated TV and movie files, with BitTorrent traffic estimated to hog around a third of all internet bandwidth, and an even higher ratio on NTL's network.

Naturally, rights holders and movie heavyweights weren't too chuffed to see their content whizzing around the Internet for gratis, and quickly hired in squadrons of lawyers to apply pressure on BitTorrent.

BitTorrent---http://www.bittorrent.com/
ntl---->http://www.ntl.com/

Via Digital Lifestyles --->http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=distribution&id=3001

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[jokster]

Well done NTL. These guys are coming on well for a company that was in serious money problems only 2 or 3 years ago, and add to this the 100mb dsl lines NTL are also talking about introducing! They will get alot of new customers.Pity NTL are not in my area though.