Watch CNN.com Live Video, Share Your Computer With CNN

Many people who watched live streaming video of the inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Jan. 20 may not realize that their PC was used to send the video to other PCs, too.

Clicking "yes" to a CNN.com dialog box installed a peer-to-peer (P2P) application that uses your Internet bandwidth rather than CNN's to send live video to other viewers.

The P2P application is called Octoshape Grid Delivery and is managed by Octoshape ApS, a company based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Comments

[GeorgeP922]

Freaking Brilliant CNN!

My hats off to you, I was scratching my head at how you handled so many views election day.

Folks, we may have just witnessed the first viable way to stream tv over the internet.

For anyone here who tried to watch the live NBC streams of Obama press conferences or Blago conferences remembers clearly how often they lose the stream from overloading.

[MsMadame]

That is scary!