internet - P2P TV streaming slowly takes off

Have been wondering whether I should let you share this bit of knowledge: a Chinese server provides over PPLive, one of the new services that provide free online streaming TV. As some of the media, including the Wall Street Journal, have noted it will be a new way to distribute TV programs while avoiding financial firewalls.
It is going to be a new way to use the bandwidth of individual users, while avoiding efforts of big companies and governments to limit the openess of the internet. Not only TV, but all internet-based services can increasingly use this peer-to-peer system.
When I have doubts, it is because the quality of the service is still rather poor; it is bound it improve as more people link up. More troublesome is that it did ask quite a lot of the resources of my computer, forcing me to switch the service off. Further, the programs available are mostly limited to Chinese programs, although especially the soccer programs are becoming popular in Europe, where commercial broadcasting stations try to make a buck by distributing important games behind online firewalls. Reasons enough to give it all a try.