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RE: is this like a peering war somehow?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Marschke)
Fri Jan 20 12:59:58 2006
From: "Doug Marschke" <doug@ipath.net>
To: "'Patrick W. Gilmore'" <patrick@ianai.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:59:26 -0800
In-Reply-To: <AE1E07E8-09DB-4C26-B03D-498A48CE1663@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
If something like the slingbox catches on....
www.slingmedia.com
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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Patrick W. Gilmore
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:26 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore
Subject: Re: is this like a peering war somehow?
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? :-)
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TTFN,
patrick
