From CNET news comes the information that NBC has decided to license some of its films for distribution on a paid P2P service. The Peer Impact service is apparently going to only carry ‘authorized content’. This is fine and a great step forward but the devil is in the details. It seems that though users are going to be able to host and share the movies for a 30 day period, allowing faster initial download speeds for all (and cheaper distribution costs for the companies involved), the files will only be viewable for 24 hours from the initial ‘play’ command.
They’re all for making sure that people can pay for their services, but allowing people to actually use them when they want to use them? No!

CNET:NBC Universal licenses films to P2P firm

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