: Research on how service providers manage stream lists and bandwidth.

If your interest is in the legal or technical architecture of the services that often distribute files with these names, you might find scholarly articles on Google Scholar using these terms:

Files like 0010-2-tv.m3u are often associated with unofficial IPTV services. Be careful when downloading or opening these files from unknown websites, as they can contain links to malicious content or be designed to exploit vulnerabilities in your media player.

: Papers on how software efficiently handles large .m3u files for live television. 3. File Security and Malware Analysis

To understand the structure of the file, you can reference the specification, which uses the .m3u8 variant (a UTF-8 version of M3U).