Even with a broadband connection and a sophisticated file-sharing schema like BitTorrent, illegally downloading and swapping movies is far more difficult than trading songs.
"If you think about a dial-up connection to the Internet and I was to get a very big file -- a huge file -- something that normally would take me on a dial-up connection 10 hours to download, I would download using this at one second, " explains Terabeam CEO Dan Hesse.