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  1. Re:CBC radio 2 by romaniuk · · Score: 1 · on String Quartets On the Web?

    Corrected Links:

    I know that this is late, and potentially off-topic, but the links I gave yesterday to CBC radio streams were incorrect. Here are the updated links for those of you who are interested:

    More information and links to additional streams are available at http://www.cbc.ca/listen/ (CBC Radio Streams). Enjoy.

  2. Re:CBC radio 2 by romaniuk · · Score: 1 · on String Quartets On the Web?

    Corrected Links:

    I know that this is late, and potentially off-topic, but the links I gave yesterday to CBC radio streams were incorrect. Here are the updated links for those of you who are interested:

    More information and links to additional streams are available at http://www.cbc.ca/listen/ (CBC Radio Streams). Enjoy.

  3. Re:CBC radio 2 by romaniuk · · Score: 1 · on String Quartets On the Web?

    Corrected Links:

    I know that this is late, and potentially off-topic, but the links I gave yesterday to CBC radio streams were incorrect. Here are the updated links for those of you who are interested:

    More information and links to additional streams are available at http://www.cbc.ca/listen/ (CBC Radio Streams). Enjoy.

  4. Re:CBC radio 2 by romaniuk · · Score: 1 · on String Quartets On the Web?

    Corrected Links:

    I know that this is late, and potentially off-topic, but the links I gave yesterday to CBC radio streams were incorrect. Here are the updated links for those of you who are interested:

    More information and links to additional streams are available at http://www.cbc.ca/listen/ (CBC Radio Streams). Enjoy.

  5. Re:streaming is so 1997 by aykroyd · · Score: 5, Informative · on Low Cost Webcast Optimizations?

    A broadcast organization, like the poster is working for, is most likely in a live environment and can't just Bittorrent to success. There are Peer to Peer streaming tools out there including Abacast and Red Swoosh who I work with on a daily basis that provide sound results for their customers.

    Unfortunately, though, a CDN-style infrastructure is still the optimal way to go. There are generally resellers of the CDN technologies that can give you reduced rates on the same service. I know our particular model allows for easy scalability with tools that allow you to control your bandwidth usage. </pitch type="shameless">

  6. Re:Interesting.. by Keviniano · · Score: 1 · on Usenet Audio

    It's already out there.

    http://www.abacast.com/

  7. You used the wrong phrasing... by Cerlyn · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Gnutella2 Specs - Part 1

    In the United States (at least), everything made since 1923 was, has been, and still are copyrighted, even if they were never registered with the copyright office. So everything you see on a peer-to-peer network is indeed copyrighted.

    A more approriate question (as some of the responders have answered) is if anyone has used a peer to peer network for a legitamite purpose. The problem here is that the issues are quite grey. If I have Game X, or Game System version 1.1 can I download copies of the games/BIOS/etc. online for use with emulators/replacements for broken discs/etc.? If an online broadcaster, paying royalty fees, uses ABAcast or Peercast to distribute their works, do I in turn have to pay royalty fees since I am rebroadcasting them?

    Unfortunately, there is a major gap between what people think they can do under copyright law and what they actually can do. While I have not extensively researched the above (IANAL), technically, all the above commonly considered legitamite things are *illegal* unless you have worked some deal out to repay the copyright holders.

    The problem you really should be asking is if anyone uses P2P networks to delibrately distribute their copyrighted works, either as a primary or secondary channel. A few minor bands likely do. The next question is if you'll ever find them on Slashdot. And I do not know the answer for that.

    Note I personally have *never* used Napster, Gnutella, Kazza, or any of the other networks, mainly because being caught doing so may jepordize my ability to be hired in certain areas. I used to be one of those nasty college network administrators trying to keep your P2P usage down because it overloading our bandwidth, and we could not order a significantly bigger pipe because our local phone switch could not handle it. Feel free to flame me for my ignorance as you will.