[140107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Sparro)
Mon May 2 10:11:50 2011
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 10:11:34 -0400
From: David Sparro <dsparro@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <201104300057.p3U0vgg2039413@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/29/2011 8:57 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> Those royalties are based on the_actual_number_ of persons
> tuning in to each such work. No 'averaging', no 'estimating', nothing
> based on 'ratings', or other 'sampling techniques -- you have to count
> the_actual_number_ of people tuned in. It gets messy, but you have to
> have 'auditable' records of when each person 'tuned in', and when they
> 'tuned out'. One_has_ to be able to detect the latter condition under
> all possible circumstances.
Really? How do they detect the number of people that were gathered
around my screen while I was watching?
Does that mean I'll be able to get a refund (pro-rated of course) for
falling asleep during UFC 129 this weekend?
--
Dave
