Interesting. Ugh the word streaming rears its ugly head a lot there, which is sort of misleading but not sure it makes any difference to their basic argument. Its biased in the sense that its only talking about actual financial cost to a company right now, as opposed to actual 'cost' to the internet as a whole in terms of bandwidth used. P2p as we know it is attractive if you are the one who has to pay the server bills. The BBC always liked p2p for delivering video, their early trials used Kontiki's commercial p2p technology. The UK ISPs were not so keen however, as they were now seeing their networks get busier in ways they havent properly predicted (sustained user uploading).
There is a real and lovely possibility that p2p is actually a more efficient way of distributing stuff in terms of internet load & balance, but this is somewhat obscured by the actual realities of how the internet & ISPs are presently setup. p2p might be the best solution for a network that doesnt exist yet, and maybe one should be built. Maybe ISPs are in the way, maybe we should all be networking in soe sor tof totally decentralised mesh, and p2p might fit that nicely. Ive no idea, Im sure there are financial interests in the status quo that will resist this, and Ive no idea how much more capacity the internet will actually end up with to handle all this stuff in the future, if left on its current course. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At some point, these sites must understandably make a return on their > > investment... since they are paying big money for all this free hosting. > > Many of us are starting to talk about HD content and bigger videos..which > > wont make the issue any easier. > > ah....to answer my own question: > http://torrentfreak.com/mininova-bittorrent-video-streaming-080319/ > > Over the past months we have seen more and more P2P streaming alternatives. > > One of the main problems seems to be that it is practically impossible to > > make a high quality video streaming service profitable because of the > > immense bandwidth costs but P2P streaming solves this problem. > > > > Looks like the European Union is funding an open source P2P streaming > player. (while we fight in the US about even talking about it) > > The Open Source > "swarmplayer"<http://www.tribler.org/browser/abc/branches/mainbranch/Tribler/Player/swarmplayer.py>which > is used for the video streaming service is developed in collaboration > > with the Tribler <http://www.tribler.org/> team from the Technical > > University Delft and Free University Amsterdam. Tribler is also working > > together with the BBC and several other European broadcasters, and they > > recently received a $22 million grant for P2P research<http://torrentfreak.com/eu-invests-22-million-in-next-generation-bittorrent-client/>from the European Union. > > > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
