On: World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years

[GordonS]

I remember thinking it was very brave of them at the time, with BitTorrent being branded as a villan then just as much as it is now.

P2P is an interesting approach to large scale media distribution, but aside from the bandwidth issues, I imagine they were under immense pressure from copyright holders to steer clear of it.

[M2Ys4U → GordonS]

BBC R&D even tried using actual bittorrent to deliver content (as part of an EU research project) a while back: https://torrentfreak.com/bbc-trials-bittorrent-powered-hd-vi...