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Zattoo?

They call it Zattoo
it's using encryptet contents over bittorrent.

I watched the World Cup Futbol championship on Zattoo and it was sometimes more "real time" than broadcast TV. How do they do that? This bittorrent prototype buffers for a full minute. And I notice the live stream isn't even doing any sharing (according to the status page).

I'm not talking about a low-quality, 2 minute clip shot by a 13 year old, replicating the mentos+coke video. Youtube is an interesting experiment, but at least it's current incarnation is little more than a fad.

I'm actually talking about a high quality video feed produced by professionals that would play on my IP-TV capable television.

Zattoo is cool and it works quite well : http://zattoo.com/

You could try Zattoo (Win/Mac only)

It's a real hassle to get it working though...

1. Register through a swiss web proxy
2. Download and install Proxifier and set it up to work with Zattoo
3. Use Zattoo through an UK Proxy or use Tor and define an UK ExitNode

Zattoo will recieve the channellist and a login-ticket valid for 24 hours or something, so once you have the channels you can close the proxy or Tor connection.

It depends. I work in a Small Business, and for Small Businesses. With a maximum of 50 people in a company, you know everyone. Things might be different in a big company, when you're no longer "Joe Smith from the IT Dept." but instead "Employee #0815".

I never had issues with file sharing programs.

I did have a bandwidth hogging issue though, with Zattoo (a legal P2P TV application). During major sport events, our internet broke down. I sent an email that zattoo shouldn't be used by multiple people at once, and instead they should listen to these events by radio, or watch it in the conference room.

Issue resolved.

Oh, and you think productivity breaks down when people are watching a sports event? It does for a moment, but most of them will catch up on it on the same day. Not everyone.

I don't know about big corporations, but in a small business, you need to trust every employee you have. That doesn't mean leaving the admin passwort to "1234", but it means to only implement measures which are necessary.

As a side effect, when other people in the company trust you, they will come and ask you for advice. This is usually before they fuck up.

An issue i encountered often is:
"I need program x to do z, but i'm not allowed to buy it".

Under normal circumstances, people might've looked for a warez copy of it, and instead finding viruses or spyware.

In this case, you usually have two ways to go

"Theres the alternative solution y, which is open source, i can install it for you"

"I don't think that theres another program than x that can do this, i will talk to your superior"

Employees are people too. If you let them waste maybe 10 hours in a year watching important sports events, they're happier. And happy people work better.

well, I would say it sounds more like http://www.zattoo.com/

For people who want to check it out: http://www.zattoo.com/

It's not P2P but normal TV streaming.