Regulators and broadcasters are increasingly out of touch with modern users and technologies. As such, they are effectively creating the "Great Firewall of Canada", regulating which content Canadians can and can’t see, recording activity, and in some cases forcing content down the "viewers" throat. While this model was somehow deemed acceptable for TV in the past, increasingly TV cablevision companies are in a conflict of interest by also controlling internet bandwidth.

Further, in the US, revolutionary new products such as Google TV have the potential to revolutionize the entire industry, yet many content providers (ABC, CBS, etc) have now blocked their content from being displayed on the device - reducing some functionality.

The idea is to create a legally acceptable or technologically strong (p2p) solution by which many users in the US, UK, etc share a portion of their bandwidth to "the cloud" for use anywhere via VPN or proxy. This could be further integrated via open source router project like OpenWRT for both server and client sides. This would allow for continuous, dependable, and secure low power serving. This would also allow for flexible and transparent client receiving, which could function for computers and Google TV boxes alike.

This may be best integrated with other compelling projects, such as Ideas’ Open MESH, DD-WRT or OpenWRT core, etc for pervasiveness.

Bandwidth could potentially be kept to a minimum, as often just initial requests/verifications need to be patriated, and after port is killed playback can continue via foreign IP/ports.

Could benefit from some sort of business model where US/UK contributors have something to gain.

[ REFERENCES ]

UltraVPN - freebie provider (unverified - drivers fark on my w7x64
OpenVPN - Open source project software project UltraVPN is based upon
USAIP.pbk - l:p demo:demo to get sweet 5min PPTP and L2TP VPN sessions around the world

[ Significant Blocked Sites: US / Int’l ]

http://www.google.com/landing/music/
hulu.com
abc
nbc