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Video Streaming Goes Peer-to-Peer
CMU ESM Project writes "Our research group at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a peer to
peer streaming video content distribution system called End System
Multicast (ESM).
The system constructs a self-organizing and adaptive overlay network
using
the receivers that are tuning into the broadcast events. The system has
been
used fairly successfully for
quite a few events. Now we want test the system with a lot of more users
and different user join patterns. We are streaming some very cool
video, such as Triumph of the Nerds by Bob Cringely, distinguished
lecture by Eric Schmidt,
CEO of Google, ACM SIGCOMM conference paper presentation by Dave Clark,
and 2002 Sony Legged Robot Soccer Championship.
Here is the detailed
schedule. So please tune in, enjoy, and help test our system!" The streaming is based on QuickTime; for Linux users, the project page steps through installation of CodeWeaver's CrossOver plug-in.
We are streaming some very cool video
/. communities attention, I'd suggest you show Ghost in a Shell, RMS vs MS PR lecturer, the Matrix, and The Two Towers.
If you wanna grab the
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Broadcast audio and video!
Who would have ever thought?
I love technology!
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I'd say if slashdot doesn't kill it, nothing will! Except the MPAA.. Evil bastards!
Can all fish swim?
P2P streaming video, eh? We *KNOW* which industry is going to be the frontrunner there. And for some reason, the geeks will all be very generous in the uh, "support" they offer.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
"We are streaming some very cool video, such as Triumph of the Nerds by Bob Cringely, distinguished lecture by Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, ACM SIGCOMM conference paper presentation by Dave Clark, and 2002 Sony Legged Robot Soccer Championship."
... PORN!
We want
In a shock move, the MPAA closed several University research departments this afternoon, in a series of commando-style raids.
"It's tantamount to theft" said Hilarity Rosen. "People sharing video and film clips like this without paying? It's immoral, unjust and illegal! Luckily, we caught the equivalent of 7,562 illegal viewers. (Well, we caught 17, but they all had VERY fast connections!)
In other news, Microsoft tommorow will announce a new DSigital Rights system for P2P video, called "PayNow!"
No self-respecting geek believes any other person to be geeky enough to be considered their "peer."
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
I'd be hard-pressed to call what they were streaming "cool". If they wanted cool, they should have been streaming video out cams hidden in the ventilation registers of good-looking coed's dorm rooms. Oh wait, I forgot, they're at Carnegie Mellon.
Which reminds me of an old, old joke: Nine out of ten girls in California are good-looking. The other one goes to Stanford.
And in Windows you have to go through the arduous task of clicking setup.exe!
I think you have to click an OK button too!
Good thing linux is 'taking over'
Now we want test the system with a lot of more users and different user join patterns.
:)
Is this the first case of someone actually ASKING to be Slashdotted? I can't think of a better stress test...
Isn't peer to peer multicast kind of an oxymoron.
***Quis custodiet ipsos custodes***
Step 1. Release story on highly visited website that will cause geeks to download before even realizing the trojan horse they have installed.
Step 2. Get geeks to keep player on by telling them they will help the greater good of p2p video streaming.
Step 3. When over 20,000 active nodes are on system begin largest DoS attack ever on MPAA and RIAA that will strike fear into the masses.
Step 4. Profit^H^H^H^H^H^H Post story on slashdot about how slashdot users defeated the evil of the internet without even knowing it.
It may seem highly unlikely, but shouldn't these freekin college kids be studying for finals??? Anyone else think this is an "odd" type of program??
I could be wrong and I probably am, but it's a hypothetical that could be very true ...
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed