On 02/07/07, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 19:49 +0100 2/7/07, Christopher Woods 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. > >They are partially right... ;) > OK. But doesn't that mean the BBC is no longer a *broadcaster* in the pure sense, and in the sense defined in the BBC Charter and elsewhere?
That's ridiculous. TCP/IP was deliberately designed as a peer-to-peer network and NOT a one-to-many broadcast system. Gordo
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