[140729] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed May 18 16:24:13 2011
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
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Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:16:01 -0400
To: Dorn Hetzel <dorn@hetzel.org>
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On 2011-05-18, at 16:09, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> they can capture popular programs at the time of multicast for later
> viewing. Whether this is better than capturing the same programs over =
a
> broadcast medium for later playback, I don't know...
... or a peer to peer medium, which is (as I understand it) how people =
who really want this to happen today manage to do it. The problem is not =
the distribution so much as the need to shoe-horn this network =
efficiency into the content business model.
I heard similar stories about the early days of distributing digital =
copies of movies to theatres for presentation -- the technology was =
trivial, even with fairly low-power commodity CPUs, until you insist =
that the content be encrypted so that nobody can walk off with it =
without paying.
Joe
