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7th July 2008 - Link Blog

OpenTech 2008 "Impossibox" presentation. One of my favourite Open Tech sessions—Tom Loosemore describes the “Impossibox”, a cloud of PVRs collaborating to transcode and share “all decent UK TV for a year” via BitTorrent.

Posted 7th July 2008 at 2:11 pm

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