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Community Wifi Feeds Community Cable in NYC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-see-what-i-stream dept.

akb writes "Manhattan Neighborhood Network has embarked on a project to combine two community networking communities in NYC, the nascent community wifi network on that isle with public access cable TV. The project has successfully conducted a test which involved cablecasting an mpeg4 video stream being transported by the nycwireless.net wireless node in Bryant Park."

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  1. Right... by Pave+Low · · Score: -1, Troll

    this sounds more like a plan to pirate cable tv feeds and "share" it with the rest of the world.

    call it what it really is: theft.

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  2. feed people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    not networks.

    There are enough hungry people we don't need bourgeois pseudo intellectuals in SoHo sipping a 5 dollar latte and reading neoconservative websites while a homeless family digs pizza crusts out of a trashbin.