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Peercast: Peer-to-Peer Streaming

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the peering-through-the-windows dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "peercast is currently in beta for a new p2p client based on the Gnutella protocol. Seems to be alot easier to use than the current "streamers". Linux/Mac on its way."

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  1. A nice way to kill the internet by Krapangor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Flooding the net with crap (oh...high quality content of course) streams.
    The p2p protocols are very suitable for multicasting. These retards doesn't even seems to know that there are a lot of exsting MC protocols out there. End-2-end connections from a central server is definitely not the way to do it.
    Well, why do I rant about it ?
    Theoretically I could just don't care.
    But crappy applications like this on the one hand and illegal apps like Napster are definitely killing the net.
    People here at /. always whine about the commercialization of the net.
    But this is the direct result of such shitty apps.
    If you want the net to remain free, don't support such stuff !

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