Mark Pesce has written a brilliant pair of essays for Mindjack called
"Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Network TV." In
Part One: Hyperdistribution he discusses how BitTorrent
has yanked the broadcaster out from between the TV producer and the audience and how this might be a good thing for
everybody (except the broadcasters too dumb to reinvent themselves). In
Part Two: The New Laws of Television, he explains how
the audience is now in control of distribution and how television can hope to survive in this new era. And lastly, he's
written a Post-Script in the aftermath of the
MPAA's shutdown of six BitTorrent TV-sharing hubs.
