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  1. Re:Not gonna work... by droopus · · Score: 1 · on The Movie Studios' Next Step in Online Movie Delivery

    Actually, I worked on one of the larger movie sites and it actually works like this:

    You download a locked file. You can store it for as long as you like, it doesn't "self-delete" or anything. When you decide you want to watch (like just before you go to the airport with five movies on your lappy) you click on the movie file and you are taken to a web page where you do the cc/Paypal thing, and your time starts.

    Watch for the prescribed period. Then the file locks down again. You can burn it to CD, throw it on a shelf: whatever. Want to watch it again in a few months/years? Click on the file, authorize it,and watch for another prescribed period.

    Not only that, but if you want to burn 50 CDs and give them to your pals, the services will love you. And your friends can authorize the file by just clicking on it..even over a modem.

    Now, combine IP VOD with Qcast and you have a real alternative to both Blockbuster and hanging out on an Efnet movie channel XDCC queue.

  2. Gee, it's been bigger guys... by droopus · · Score: 4, Informative · on EFNet Reaches 100,000 Concurrent Connections

    On the weekend of May 9-11 2002 both Spiderman and SWEP2 were released on various IRC channels. The sudden rise in channel populations was staggering: on Dal, #Newest-Movies went from a usual 450ppl to 1300; #VCDvault went from 350 to 1000; all the movie channels on Dalnet, Efnet and the XDCC chans on Criten.net were massively overfilled.

    On May 10 2002 Dalnet reached a level of 139000+ concurrent users.See chart

    The usual population of all major and minor IRC networks is just under a million. But on that weekend it was almost double. Seeing Efnet hit 100k isn't anything special. There are bigger networks, and events that make 100k users on Efnet seem ordinary.

    I can't believe you guys put this yawner on the front page but rejected my PS2 Networked Divx player story, or even worse, my ultra-cool Enron Asset Auction story, which every geek on IRC is slobbering over.

  3. Broadq by mofu · · Score: 5, Informative · on Turn your PS2 into a Tivo

    Snapstream appears to be taken a disproportionant ammount of credit for this. The real news here is the Broadq software which installs as on your PC as a media server which you can access thru a PS2 with a ethernet adapter. Supports MP3, MPEG1,2,4, DivX, and JPEG formats. Server side runs on Linux, Windows, or OS X.

    The Snapstream software is just one way to get mediafiles on your server to watch. . . .

    Closest Open Source project similar to this VideoLAN