That's all nice and pretty. It will be nice and secure. But what happens to those of us who are not connected to the net all the time? With my system here, my computer is not connected to the net directly. It is connected via the network and the proxy server on another machine. But even then, that's a dialup link and is not up all the time. Now what happens when I want to play that song? Now I've got to be online? I'd rather be able to play songs (like I do now) directly from my fileserver (another machine), without having the net connected.
That's another reason why this won't work. It's nice for those in the US with always on cable connections, but here in Australia, it's still too expensive for the average person.
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That's all nice and pretty. It will be nice and secure. But what happens to those of us who are not connected to the net all the time? With my system here, my computer is not connected to the net directly. It is connected via the network and the proxy server on another machine. But even then, that's a dialup link and is not up all the time. Now what happens when I want to play that song? Now I've got to be online? I'd rather be able to play songs (like I do now) directly from my fileserver (another machine), without having the net connected. That's another reason why this won't work. It's nice for those in the US with always on cable connections, but here in Australia, it's still too expensive for the average person.