[93792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Home media servers, AUPs, and upstream bandwidth utilization.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Dec 26 13:09:21 2006
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612250812410.32329@uplift.swm.pp.se>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:07:50 -0800
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Dec 24, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> So to sum up, the upstream problem you're talking about is already
> here, it's just that instead of using your own PVR box and then
> sharing that, someone did this somewhere in the world, encoded it
> into Xvid and then it is shared between end users (illegally). I
> believe the problem is the same.
Understood - part of what I'm trying to ask (not very well,
apparently, heh) is whether presumably non-infringing mechanisms/
services such as the Slingbox are viewed and/or would be treated any
differently than P2P filesharing apps.
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