Comments on: VCR-like box boasts P2P content at push of button

Dutch company offers home media player designed to give Net users easy access to movies, TV shows from peer-to-peer networks.

[bobby_brady]

Is this box just a leech?

Or does it share (like it should)?

[thedreaming]

A Tivo?

It almost sounds like a tivo, but for p2p networks. Just tag what you want to watch or listen to and when it's downloaded, it plays it on your tv and when you're done you can burn it off to a dvd.

[skeptik]

WOW!

(Yes this box uploads as well - though you can turn it off) Google for more info.

This device is the future. It needs some more features (a tuner being the first step) to complete it's function, but the idea is sound. Content IS moving to the internet, so this becomes a TIVO for internet media. With a tuner it's a TIVO for all sources.
Of course the content companies will fight to kill this right up to the moment they realize devices like this have been helping their bottom line for the past 3 years. (They're a bit slow to realize/admit the benefits of technology, but extremely fast to cry wolf about how new technology will kill them!)
Then again, this device doesn't do anything a computer won't do, it just simplifies it for the masses, so the legal issues really shouldn't be that big. Shouldn't, but will in my prediction.