"The Canadian province of Alberta is building the infrastructure to provide highspeed internet service to 422 cities"
Theres 422 cities in Alberta? Didnt know there were 422 cities in the whole of Canada, let alone Alberta.
Lessig seems to think broadband exists purely for bandwidth. What about the exceptionally low latency which totally changes the experience of surfing the web or playing games? Not to mention the always-on factor....
No, the slow uptake of broadband is mostly caused by the economic downturn and absence of state subsidies. Growth will start increasing once the recesion is over, with or without content.
Stick to law Lessig and quit pimping slashdot
Is the morpehus/kazaa network _totally_ decentalised? Certainly not. How do you think you logon to the network in the first place? You need a permanently online powerful server, with a static ip or dns name, so users can connect to it and receive the ip's of super-nodes to then connect to. These servers are called "host caches", and Fasttrack, Musiccity and the Gnutella companies are all running them. If there is one weak point to p2p networks, this is it. The RIAA and MPAA will take these down, not sue the super-node operators.
An alternative is to post the ip's of nodes onto a website, like http://www.gnufrog.com. Again, this approach suffers from the same weaknesses as host cache's, not to mention the extra hassle of C&P'ing.
We're still a long way away from pure peer-to-peer networks.
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...nor in Southampton. I'm guessing its strictly a London thing :(
"The Canadian province of Alberta is building the infrastructure to provide highspeed internet service to 422 cities" Theres 422 cities in Alberta? Didnt know there were 422 cities in the whole of Canada, let alone Alberta.
Lessig seems to think broadband exists purely for bandwidth. What about the exceptionally low latency which totally changes the experience of surfing the web or playing games? Not to mention the always-on factor.... No, the slow uptake of broadband is mostly caused by the economic downturn and absence of state subsidies. Growth will start increasing once the recesion is over, with or without content. Stick to law Lessig and quit pimping slashdot
Nothing will beat Divx for a long time!
Is the morpehus/kazaa network _totally_ decentalised? Certainly not. How do you think you logon to the network in the first place? You need a permanently online powerful server, with a static ip or dns name, so users can connect to it and receive the ip's of super-nodes to then connect to. These servers are called "host caches", and Fasttrack, Musiccity and the Gnutella companies are all running them. If there is one weak point to p2p networks, this is it. The RIAA and MPAA will take these down, not sue the super-node operators. An alternative is to post the ip's of nodes onto a website, like http://www.gnufrog.com. Again, this approach suffers from the same weaknesses as host cache's, not to mention the extra hassle of C&P'ing. We're still a long way away from pure peer-to-peer networks.