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Revolutionary Bit Torrent Television Program Limited By ISPs

Manitoba- The continued controversy over the practice of regulating traffic on the Internet continues, as the new television program released on the Internet has ran into some snags in reaching the public.

The bottleneck appears to be occurring because of a practice that Canadian Bell Telephone Company and some of the Canadian Internet Service Providers are using, called Traffic shaping.   This is the practice of limiting the amount of bandwidth available for users, and is directly interfering with CBC-TV’s attempt to legally release their program.

Canadian Broadcasting Company made history on Sunday night when they released to the Internet the program “Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister,” and made it available for viewing. But there was one problem.

Many viewers in the home nation of Canada cant access the program.

CBC-TV announced last week to great fanfare that they were using the Bit Torrent technology to release, for free, the complete last episode of the popular Canada game show to the Internet.  Such a broad based television program, in high definition, has not been done on as yet on the North American continent.

Norway has explored such an Internet release of point-to-point television programming, but it has not been explored yet in North America.  So the CBC effort is truly history in the making.

After the program was released to the Internet on Sunday following the live airing of the program, hundreds of users reported that there were problems.

Customer complaints, and blog technology sites both report that customers are reporting severely long download times, and in some cases error messages saying that the downloads cannot go through. One user was told it would take 11 hours for the program to download, another was told over 2 hours.