On 02/07/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is partially P2P... It's the nature of the Kontiki client. You download content and it comes primarily off the BBC servers, but I've noticed connections to other peers whilst downloading content. I've also noticed Kontiki uploading content to other peers when it's just been sitting idle (and it doesn't matter whether the iPlayer library app is sitting in the tray or not loaded, the khost and kservice services run 24/7 unless you manually kill them). Not something I really care about, but for people on limited bandwidth plans it's an issue - something I raised on the forums, suggesting a "do not use my connection to upload to peers" or similar in the Kontiki app (can't remember my exact wording now), or at least a funtion to disable the P2P nature of the platform.
The cost of licence fee payer's bandwidth being used for uploading was calculated by Ofcom and used and approved by the BBC Trust .. I think they made out it was about 10p a month... they didn't compute CPU time, just bandwidth costs. They are partially right... ;)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Gordon Joly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 July 2007 19:08 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Cc: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk; Brian Butterworth > Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Ofcom complaint raised > > At 16:35 +0100 2/7/07, Brian Butterworth wrote: > >Interesting? > > > ><http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/118819/what-have-they-done-to-th > e-bbc-ipla > >yer.html>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/118819/what-have-they-do > ne-to-the- > >bbc-iplayer.html > > > "The iPlayer is the BBC's peer-to-peer download service..." > > Doh! > > Peer to peer? > > Gordo > > -- > "Think Feynman"///////// > http://pobox.com/~gordo/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// > - > Sent via the 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/ - Sent via the 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/
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