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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. Cable TOS by Weffs11 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder what my cable provider has to say about this....

    I know they forbid hosting/serving, but does this count?

    Anyone read the TOS agreement for Cox recently?

  2. Ultra short review.... by MADCOWbeserk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Downloaded and tried it a few minutes ago. The system set to default settings found three streams. They all seemed to stream well, I liked the "Soma Tribute" stream alot. All in all everything works as advertised. I'm (easily?) impressed with what they have done. But more content is needed, more people need to put up "stations."

    I'll be taking down my andromeda server and replacing it with a Peercast stream in the next few days.

  3. Bandwidth? by JediTrainer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    P2P is all great and everything, but nowadays I'm worried that it'll all be killed off because of bandwidth costs.

    Most cable/DSL companies are now putting caps on traffic, and are starting to charge by the byte when you go over those limits.

    I don't know about you, but while I don't mind paying for bandwidth I use, I sure as hell am not going to pay for someone else to get music/videos/pictures/etc at my expense.

    This also brings in an interesting dilemma - if both users are on the came cable company's backbone, are they double-dipping if they charge both users for that bandwidth?

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