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15th annual Cinequest Film Festival's lineup of nearly 200 films, most of which are available for download from the festival's website.

Published on March 5, 2005 By joeKnowledge In Pure Technology

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Cinequest, a P2P Movie Fest

02:00 AM Mar. 03, 2005 PT by Alison Strahan

There's no need to don black tie or jewels to attend the 15th annual Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California, this week. In fact, there's no need to don anything.

Simply lounge in the buff while you check out the festival's lineup of nearly 200 films, most of which are available for download from the festival's website.

Running March 2 though March 13, the Cinequest event is an independent film festival with a digital twist.

Commercial-free, DVD-quality downloads of many of the festival's feature films are available for online viewing, powered by a video-sharing system from Kontiki that uses peer-to-peer technology to deliver movies to desktops.

Like its file-sharing competitor BitTorrent, Kontiki users download movies not just from one server but from many. Movie files are broken into small chunks that...

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