Cybersky
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Cybersky is a new (and potentially controversial) peer-to-peer application, which will enable users to stream live television broadcasts, or access them, from anywhere in the world via their Internet connection.
Cybersky's name is a pun on the name of its inventor, Guido Ciburski, a television software engineer in Koblenz, Germany. The idea originated when Ciburski attempted to receive live feeds of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, only to find the servers were jammed.
Originally due to launch at the end of January, 2005, Cybersky faced the same hostility from German pay-TV company Premiere that other P2P applications as Napster, Kazaa and Grokster had done from record companies and film producers. Owing to rights reasons, television channels are unable to broadcast worldwide, either via satellite or online.
As of 2006, Cybersky was still not available owing to legal disputes with Premiere.
In 1999, a service called ICraveTV.com, attempted to stream 17 different TV channels from Canada and the U.S., supposedly only to residents of Canada. This closed in 2000 after threats of legal action in both countries. In instances where television programmes or channels are available online, these can be restricted to certain countries, as users' locations can be identified by their IP addresses.
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Cybersky is not to be confused with CyberSky, an astronomy based computer program. Website
