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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. Play it right and p2p goes mainstream by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's apparently a winamp plugin in the pipeline.

    If this could get bundled with the regular winamp download, I think we'd be on to something.

    I think the folks at winamp would be interested in doing this; it's an interesting 'selling' point. Download this player, get instant access to millions (?) of songs instantly and without further downloads.

    The gnutella network, if I read things correctly, would benefit from the incremental bandwidth of Joe Sixpack and his brethren.

    Win-win situation?

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  2. Users armed with a web server. by Mattygfunk · · Score: 4, Funny
    A built-in web server is included with each client, this enables you or someone else on your LAN to view/listen to your active channels with a standard web browser.

    For all you lot preparing to cry sercurity, sercurity, security, don't worry it only runs on windows so I'm sure everything is ok.

  3. (OT) Source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful
    From the peercast homepage: The main reason for not releasing the source code so far is literally because we haven`t had the time yet. We`re doing this in our spare time (yes, we have proper jobs :) and want to have the chance to clean up the code, document it and put it CVS.

    Not wishing to get into the old GPL debate, as their page implies it was all written from scratch rather than borrowing GPL code, but...

    I really don't understand why people plan to put things into CVS after the code is writen and changed, etc... It makes sense to start with CVS from the outset.

  4. 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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