It¹ll take a few weeks I would imagine before you¹ll hear much the list is getting blasted at the moment as you¹d expect!
I¹ll post up more information as I know it. m On 19/4/07 15:53, "Paul Jefferson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know when we will hear if we are in or not? (Or is the fact that I've > not heard mean I'm not in?) > Paul (Long Time Lurker) > > > On 19/04/07, James Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 19 Apr 2007, at 14:39, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote: >> >>> > James Cox wrote: >>> > >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and >>>> >> gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking >>>> >> up into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery >>>> >> to have certified users (ie, license fee payers ;)) only which >>>> >> would permit some kind of higher bandwidth product. >>> > >>> > >>> > I've never really felt comfortable with distributed P2P for content >>> > that I've paid for. It's great when bittorrent is used for >>> > transfering ubuntu iso's around (as it's members of a community >>> > helping others in the same community), it's less great but at least >>> > makes some sense when it's used for piracy (as it's still a members >>> > of a community helping other members in a community, all be it an >>> > illicit one) but when it comes to content that I'm paying somebody >>> > to send to me, I don't see why I should waste my upload bandwith >>> > for someone else's business model. Even with content from the BBC, >>> > I pay the licence fee so why should I pay in bandwidth as well? >>> > >> >> Fair enough, but i love the fact I can grab an ISO or ... er... >> certain content very rapidly using the P2P model. Since I pay a flat >> rate anyhow, and i've got loads of upload bandwidth to use, I'm not >> that fussed. :) >> >> - james >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk <http://backstage.bbc.co.uk> discussion >> group. To unsubscribe, please visit >> http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial >> list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >> > _______________________ Matthew Cashmore Development Producer BBC Future Media & Technology, Research and Innovation BC4B5, Broadcast Centre, Media Village, W12 7TS T: 020 8008 3959 (02 83959) M: 07711 913241 (072 83959)
