[140931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Timmins)
Wed May 25 12:38:21 2011
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:38:11 -0400
From: Paul Timmins <paul@telcodata.us>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim05DFir+ftAP-_nxPnt1o2+X7RQA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 05/24/2011 11:12 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Lou Katz<lou@metron.com> wrote:
>
>>>> An "elegant" idea, done in by changing technology. *sigh*
>>>>
>>>>
>> As USENIX director I sponsored and sheparded this project, called "Stargate".
>> We at least got bits into the blanking interval at WTBS in Altanta.
>>
> So... would this have been feasible today? given the bandwidth
> required to send a full feed these days, i suspect likely not, eh?
> (even if you were able to do it on all 500+ channels in parallel)
>
All you need these days is an MPEG4 decoder and some ATSC tuners, and
you can regenerate most of the alt. namespace locally. For the rest you
may need a subscription to netflix a DVD drive, and some ripping software.
I wonder what usenet would take for bandwidth if you ditched all the
pirated content.
-Paul
