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EU Funds P2P-Based Internet TV Standard
oliderid writes to let us know that, even as the UK threatens ISPs who don't clamp down on P2P traffic, the rest of the EU is going the other way. (Here is a link with a a bit more technical detail.) Europe recently agreed to: "...spend 14M Euros to create a standard way to send TV via the Net. The project will create a peer-to-peer system that can pipe programs to set-top boxes and home TV sets. It will be based on the BitTorrent technology. The four-year research project will try to build a system that can stand alongside the other ways that broadcasters currently get programs to viewers."
As you say one country, we are entitled to a Kentucky too you know :-) Anyway it's obvious Europe wants to do things itself. We are no developing country that has to sell it's soul to uncle Sam. And given the healthy amount of suspicion, we want to use our own knowledge and learn from our own mistakes. Probably our mistakes are even better as we sometimes are able to learn from them. So 'the more' money you are referring to is called 'learning money' here and we consider it well spent. Ask Boeing or Nasa what we mean by that :-)