A method for distributing a digital motion picture to multiple theaters in
a region via terrestrial wireless communication. The motion picture is
divided into chunks, and the chunks are transmitted to particular initial
seed theaters in the region. To facilitate the initial seeding, downlink
bandwidth on various wireless links is dynamically increased. Once the
initial seeding is complete, the downlink bandwidth is decreased and is
preferably equalized substantially with uplink bandwidth. The theaters in
the region are then directed to begin peer-to-peer sharing of the chunks
with each other, possibly through use of BitTorrent or other cooperative
downloading process from the initial seed theaters. Ultimately, all of
the theaters in the region thereby obtain all of the chunks of the motion
picture and can conveniently present the motion picture to audiences.