I chaired a two day conference on this very topic in Vienna last year. See the results at http://www.bests.org/ The "independance" of the registration authourity is the main point in question:
Businesses don't trust Government to do it, Government doesn't trust businesses and the individual consumer trusts neither!
Cuban is clearly off base with his statements. MP3 has just as much of a chance of survival or death as any other popular streaming format. It's Open Source origin allows it to be incorporated into any application, even the Windowze Media Player and Real technologies.
Aditionally, Bandwidth will not be "free", unless an advertising model can be found that offers scale, i.e. many listeners. I predict that the current ditribution methodologies will change, allowing economical use of bandwidth and facilities, but make no mistake, the end user will pay one way or another.
Remember: BroadBand may entail use of Internetworking tools and technologies, but doesn't mean it will have to be an open network, we are more likely to see closed systems on a subscription basis, that offer BroadBand experiences.
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I chaired a two day conference on this very topic in Vienna last year. See the results at http://www.bests.org/
The "independance" of the registration authourity is the main point in question:
Businesses don't trust Government to do it, Government doesn't trust businesses and the individual consumer trusts neither!
AC
Cuban is clearly off base with his statements.
MP3 has just as much of a chance of survival or death as any other popular streaming format. It's Open Source origin allows it to be incorporated into any application, even the Windowze Media Player and Real technologies.
Aditionally, Bandwidth will not be "free", unless an advertising model can be found that offers scale, i.e. many listeners. I predict that the current ditribution methodologies will change, allowing economical use of bandwidth and facilities, but make no mistake, the end user will pay one way or another.
Remember: BroadBand may entail use of Internetworking tools and technologies, but doesn't mean it will have to be an open network, we are more likely to see closed systems on a subscription basis, that offer BroadBand experiences.
AC
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