The FCC did study it. They went through a years long regulatory process, consulted the engineers and everything. The broadcast industry bought a bill to overrule the FCC on a technical decision, which is highly unusual.
The original bill didn't include a study at all, but as pressure grew and it became apparent what the broadcast industry and got some press the study bit was put in.
Its not clear whether this will result in lots new stations being licensed, as there's plenty of bureaucratic process to abuse. Heck, the industry just might buy another bill.
Indymedia has been doing this kind of stuff for years. Its a network of websites where people upload multimedia news content. It started off as an event based thing around protests (Seattle '99) but has grown into a network of over 100 sites worldwide, that try to provide community news coverage on an ongoing basis.
For most of the coverage is not done live, ie people take pictures, video, etc and then go back home or to a community media center and then upload it. There have been a wide variety of live wireless strategies used including:
- internet radio stream with live callins via cellphone (most popular) - phone cams - sms gateway - onsite kiosk provided via 3G phone, for picture upload, live chat - live 802.11b video streaming
Since Seattle '99 thousands of a/v clips, tens of thousands of photos and hundreds of thousands of text articles have been contributed to this collaborative news platform.
We've done some stuff with syndication of our content but the protocols don't exist yet to fully exchange multimedia content.
One thing that I think Indymedia has that blog culture doesn't is that its not "just a website". The websites function to allow anyone to participate but that's generally not thought to be sufficient. Each of the 100+ nodes in the network has a group of people that work to cultivate a liberated media space by doing things like provide training on how to do multimedia and reporting, holds film showings, provides technical support, publish newspapers, etc.
It cracks me up how everyone in left leaning DC refers to it as "National Airport". Less funny is how the right wing Congress threatens to withold funding for DC unless the Metro refers to it with Reagan's name.
Ricochet ran a well regarded service over 900mhz. They claimed 1 mile range from base stations, w/o line of site. So it is certainly possible to build a reliable service.
Urban environments have a fair amount of 900mhz interference, in a rural setting you are probably much better off. Heck, w/ all the 2.4ghz phones being sold I wonder if 900mhz is clearing up some.
There's a whole lot of cheap equipment around. I got 3 900mhz DEC Roamabout pcmcia nics for $12 (inc shipping). They are 2mbit and the linux driver worked perfectly.
Many houses have old directional antennas for UHF TV that aren't used anymore because of cable / satellite. I've found a fair amount of these range up to 900mhz. So maybe you've already got an installed antenna and cable run in your house. If not you probably know someone who has one they aren't using or can pick one up for cheap.
I wish someone would hook this up to a KU satellite and make it public. There's a lot of content that flows across there that's copyright clear. Heck there's even copyright clear stuff on DISH network satellite, a bunch of the stuff on Free Speech TV is available for noncommercial copying/viewing, like Democracy Now! and Indymedia Newsreal.
Ugg, remote X display of video. That sounds like it would be terrible for any reasonable res video. Why not just setup a streaming server which was designed to deliver video as effeiciently as possible?
There's no money in streaming over the Internet, it costs too much.
Check out my site it lets people submit interesting videos they've seen on the web. I recently added a playlist for Real Video so you can watch it like a channel.
I guess the UK needs to work on cultivating its culture of piracy. Maybe you should work with the folks that run Sharereactor, they keep pretty up to date on quite a few TV series. They even have Japanese stuff.
The free PVR projects (Freevo, MythTV) should start a data collection service that users opt into and sell this information to marketers then disperse the money back to the end users. Tivo should sell a box, not a box that requires a connection to the mothership.
As usual Apple charges 2x for RAM. Get 3rd party RAM and drop the Airport Extreme (the Dream System will use gigabit ethernet), Bluetooth, modem and we're almost below $10k.
I asked you to cite an example where someone was arrested for sharing legitimate content w/ BT. You did not do so.
If you use BT and you wind up with illegal content on your machine
Of course if you violate copyright law you risk serious consequences. That was not the point you were making earlier. You maintained that one risked serious consequences, including arrest, whether using BT with legitimate material or not.
Universities may well ban BT as a bandwidth hog. But they will not expell someone for sharing legitimate content. They would treat that person under their policy for bandwidth hogs which would probably be loss of computing privileges. If you can cite a case that says different I'd be interested.
Repeat after me and the Supreme Court "substantial noninfringing use".
Please provide an example where sharing legitimate content w/ BT would result in an arrest. What law is being broken?
Violating ISP AUPs result in the contract being terminated and possibly a bill for early cancellation, I don't know if you would count that as a "fine".
No university would expell someone for sharing legitimate content with BT. There would be a process and some other punishment (loss of computing privileges prolly) before resorting to expelling.
Fired, is a possibility as private firms have the option of overreacting in an arbitrary manner.
Looking the project over I don't understand why this project requires a new p2p network. Why not just publish an rss feed of the content in the channel with links or enclosures as magnet://, ed2k://, freenet, sig2dat://, torrent, etc. Then you just add the download option to anyone's choice of rss newsreaders.
I think the concept of a prefetch channel idea applied to p2p is a good one but as p2p evolves this person's implementation may or may not keep up. The rss idea uses existing standards and existing p2p networks yet it can also adapt as new p2p networks develop.
The 2 antennas don't work independently of each other, so you can't have them cover different areas.
Your linksys probably has rp-tnc connectors, there are a variety of options from 3rd parties for antennae, cables, etc. I believe linksys sells an amplifier as well.
If they replace pppoe w/ pptp they have encryption of data with basically the same infrastructure. The client has shipped w/ every Windows version since '95 and there are free clients for every OS I can think of 'cept os9.
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For some of that subculture checkout radio4all.net. Its a site for swapping shows in mp3 format.
The FCC did study it. They went through a years long regulatory process, consulted the engineers and everything. The broadcast industry bought a bill to overrule the FCC on a technical decision, which is highly unusual.
The original bill didn't include a study at all, but as pressure grew and it became apparent what the broadcast industry and got some press the study bit was put in.
Its not clear whether this will result in lots new stations being licensed, as there's plenty of bureaucratic process to abuse. Heck, the industry just might buy another bill.
What do you do if you meet someone from Pakistan on the street? Spit on them?
You seem like one of those people that would have gleefully herded the Japanese into concentration camps during WWII.
Ebay.
Indymedia has been doing this kind of stuff for years. Its a network of websites where people upload multimedia news content. It started off as an event based thing around protests (Seattle '99) but has grown into a network of over 100 sites worldwide, that try to provide community news coverage on an ongoing basis.
For most of the coverage is not done live, ie people take pictures, video, etc and then go back home or to a community media center and then upload it. There have been a wide variety of live wireless strategies used including:
- internet radio stream with live callins via cellphone (most popular)
- phone cams
- sms gateway
- onsite kiosk provided via 3G phone, for picture upload, live chat
- live 802.11b video streaming
Since Seattle '99 thousands of a/v clips, tens of thousands of photos and hundreds of thousands of text articles have been contributed to this collaborative news platform.
We've done some stuff with syndication of our content but the protocols don't exist yet to fully exchange multimedia content.
One thing that I think Indymedia has that blog culture doesn't is that its not "just a website". The websites function to allow anyone to participate but that's generally not thought to be sufficient. Each of the 100+ nodes in the network has a group of people that work to cultivate a liberated media space by doing things like provide training on how to do multimedia and reporting, holds film showings, provides technical support, publish newspapers, etc.
I work with DC Indymedia.
You mean like this?
It cracks me up how everyone in left leaning DC refers to it as "National Airport". Less funny is how the right wing Congress threatens to withold funding for DC unless the Metro refers to it with Reagan's name.
Ricochet ran a well regarded service over 900mhz. They claimed 1 mile range from base stations, w/o line of site. So it is certainly possible to build a reliable service.
Urban environments have a fair amount of 900mhz interference, in a rural setting you are probably much better off. Heck, w/ all the 2.4ghz phones being sold I wonder if 900mhz is clearing up some.
There's a whole lot of cheap equipment around. I got 3 900mhz DEC Roamabout pcmcia nics for $12 (inc shipping). They are 2mbit and the linux driver worked perfectly.
Many houses have old directional antennas for UHF TV that aren't used anymore because of cable / satellite. I've found a fair amount of these range up to 900mhz. So maybe you've already got an installed antenna and cable run in your house. If not you probably know someone who has one they aren't using or can pick one up for cheap.
Wow, thanks. And there I was considering letting the domain expire because I don't get much traffic.
Please submit videos that you see 'round on the net.
I wish someone would hook this up to a KU satellite and make it public. There's a lot of content that flows across there that's copyright clear. Heck there's even copyright clear stuff on DISH network satellite, a bunch of the stuff on Free Speech TV is available for noncommercial copying/viewing, like Democracy Now! and Indymedia Newsreal.
Ugg, remote X display of video. That sounds like it would be terrible for any reasonable res video. Why not just setup a streaming server which was designed to deliver video as effeiciently as possible?
There's no money in streaming over the Internet, it costs too much.
Check out my site it lets people submit interesting videos they've seen on the web. I recently added a playlist for Real Video so you can watch it like a channel.
I guess the UK needs to work on cultivating its culture of piracy. Maybe you should work with the folks that run Sharereactor, they keep pretty up to date on quite a few TV series. They even have Japanese stuff.
Video of anarchist hippy kids smashing TVs in front of NBC.
The free PVR projects (Freevo, MythTV) should start a data collection service that users opt into and sell this information to marketers then disperse the money back to the end users. Tivo should sell a box, not a box that requires a connection to the mothership.
As usual Apple charges 2x for RAM. Get 3rd party RAM and drop the Airport Extreme (the Dream System will use gigabit ethernet), Bluetooth, modem and we're almost below $10k.
Guess its time for pirates to consider moving their activities to Freenet. Anonymous and censor resistant.
I asked you to cite an example where someone was arrested for sharing legitimate content w/ BT. You did not do so.
If you use BT and you wind up with illegal content on your machine
Of course if you violate copyright law you risk serious consequences. That was not the point you were making earlier. You maintained that one risked serious consequences, including arrest, whether using BT with legitimate material or not.
Universities may well ban BT as a bandwidth hog. But they will not expell someone for sharing legitimate content. They would treat that person under their policy for bandwidth hogs which would probably be loss of computing privileges. If you can cite a case that says different I'd be interested.
Repeat after me and the Supreme Court "substantial noninfringing use".
Please provide an example where sharing legitimate content w/ BT would result in an arrest. What law is being broken?
Violating ISP AUPs result in the contract being terminated and possibly a bill for early cancellation, I don't know if you would count that as a "fine".
No university would expell someone for sharing legitimate content with BT. There would be a process and some other punishment (loss of computing privileges prolly) before resorting to expelling.
Fired, is a possibility as private firms have the option of overreacting in an arbitrary manner.
I call FUD.
I'm sorry but my drool is reserved for the Archos av320. It has a 20GB hard drive, so it can hold 40 hours of mpeg4 movies.
Its all the web hosting companies leaving europe for the US. Thanks Council of Europe!
Yet Another P2P Network.
Looking the project over I don't understand why this project requires a new p2p network. Why not just publish an rss feed of the content in the channel with links or enclosures as magnet://, ed2k://, freenet, sig2dat://, torrent, etc. Then you just add the download option to anyone's choice of rss newsreaders.
I think the concept of a prefetch channel idea applied to p2p is a good one but as p2p evolves this person's implementation may or may not keep up. The rss idea uses existing standards and existing p2p networks yet it can also adapt as new p2p networks develop.
The 2 antennas don't work independently of each other, so you can't have them cover different areas.
Your linksys probably has rp-tnc connectors, there are a variety of options from 3rd parties for antennae, cables, etc. I believe linksys sells an amplifier as well.
Last I looked the T1's they are using to connect these people to the 'net were not free.
If they replace pppoe w/ pptp they have encryption of data with basically the same infrastructure. The client has shipped w/ every Windows version since '95 and there are free clients for every OS I can think of 'cept os9.