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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Inferior to Bittorrent by Yartrebo · 2005-01-10 04:53 · Score: 0, Troll

Unless the event must be live and not delayed by even an few hours, bittorrent is far superior in my view. It uses the same bandwidth but allows you to watch the stuff when you want to and you get a copy on your computer.

Broadcasting is a relic from when technology made on demand downloading impractical. The internet can just as easily do on demand as broadcast, so why cripple yourself?