Peercasting Ready for Primetime?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 10, 2005 @04:10AM from the bit-torrent-for-the-rest-of-the-world dept.

ZephyrXero writes "Have you ever wanted to run your own internet radio or TV station, but thought the bandwidth would cost too much? While Wired thinks Peer-to-peer broadcasting, or "peercasting", will be the future of the internet (previously posted); Peercast.org says it's already here today. Peercast's software is available for Linux, Windows, and Mac. You can broadcast both audio and video without needing a whole lot of bandwidth since each audience member also uploads back to the network. The Xiph Foundation is also working on a similar project called "IceShare," but it's still in planning. Peercast, still in beta seems to already be fully functional and ready for an audience (even you dial-up guys)."

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Ready for primetime? by stratjakt · 2005-01-10 04:22 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm trying to use peercast right now.

Every "station" has 0 listeners and 0 relayers, save two or three japanese ones.

Yeah, sound's like the next big thing for bloggers. Another way to "express yourself" without anyone ever seeing or hearing.

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slashdotted by Mr.+McGibby · 2005-01-10 04:33 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe they should p2p their web site. It's already down.

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