[martinald]

You'd actually be surprised how good bittorrent live video streaming has got. I checked it out and it was pixel perfect 720p HD - absolutely fine for sports.

But yes, it's still niche, but wow it has moved on a lot. The program I used was called acestream.

[kaishiro]

This is still only true if you have the pipe. Attempting this from Melbourne and the streams still fall on their face.

[martinald]

It worked fine on 10meg/1meg ADSL2+. I think most people have access to that (at least in the UK, >95% of population).

[kaishiro]

Haha, 10meg down. I'm lucky to get 5.5...

[Aissen]

You only need a few people locally for the stream to become viable. That's the beauty of p2p.