You might have heard of
Cybersky-TV, a free software application for sharing
live television feeds on the Internet that was shut down by the German court earlier this year (here's
some info,
news of the court action) . To illustrate the potential power of the peer-to-peer live TV distribution, I just took a snapshot of a friend in my Boston room watching a live broadcast from Sofia of a Bulgarian soccer match through a similar Chinese service on his laptop.