Via PVRBlog, Mark Pesce has a wonderful two part piece on BitTorrent and how it is effecting television distribution. I’m still not certain what the future of television will look like, but it’s pretty clear there are going to be a few big winners and few big losers as a result.

I think the missing piece of the puzzle, which Alexander from eHomeUpgrade has mentioned a lot recently is a DRM technology that is platform independent. If there was a standard, ubiquitous encoding technology that was easy to implement on any platform and allow transfer to most devices, it would be a win for producers that don’t want unrestricted duplication without getting some stipend for their work, but also a win for consumers that can have access to more content legally.

You only need to try to get Tivo with Tivo2Go to transfer a show to a PSP (Sony Playstation Portable) to realize things just ain’t right.