[88106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: is this like a peering war somehow?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Jan 20 11:26:10 2006
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Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:25:40 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Jan 20, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
> Perhaps this additional networking complexity (and hence cost, at
> some level, presumably) will allow peoples' eyes to be opened to
> the fact that the majority of television being viewed over the
> Internet today is done asynchronously, through peer-to-peer, file-
> sharing networks.
>
> It amuses me to think of early-adopting consumers receiving all
> their expensive, network-optimised television shows in real-time on
> their TiVOs, only to have them recorded to disk and watched days
> later. (Recorded onto hard disks with no DRM, no less, ready to be
> encoded and uploaded to eDonkey :-)
>
> If content distribution companies would accept this as the final
> outcome, then sticking a torrent client on the set-top-box and
> feeding it from an RSS feed starts to seem a lot cheaper than
> encumbering every access network with traffic shaping.
Agreed - mostly.
Things like sports events will still require real-time feeds, and
people will pay for them. But satellite seems like a perfectly
reasonable and cost-efficient means of distribution without going
through anyone's right-of-way.
I mean, seriously, do you think anyone is going to WAIT to see
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show? :-)
--
TTFN,
patrick
