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On 03/07/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 02/07/07, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 19:49 +0100 2/7/07, Christopher Woods wrote: > >It is partially P2P... It's the nature of the Kontiki client. You > download > >content and it comes primarily off the BBC servers, but I've noticed > >connections to other peers whilst downloading content. I've also > noticed > >Kontiki uploading content to other peers when it's just been sitting > idle > >(and it doesn't matter whether the iPlayer library app is sitting in > the > >tray or not loaded, the khost and kservice services run 24/7 unless you > >manually kill them). > > > >Not something I really care about, but for people on limited bandwidth > plans > >it's an issue - something I raised on the forums, suggesting a "do not > use > >my connection to upload to peers" or similar in the Kontiki app (can't > >remember my exact wording now), or at least a funtion to disable the > P2P > >nature of the platform. > > > >They are partially right... ;) > > > > > OK. But doesn't that mean the BBC is no longer a *broadcaster* in the > pure sense, and in the sense defined in the BBC Charter and elsewhere? That's ridiculous. TCP/IP was deliberately designed as a peer-to-peer network and NOT a one-to-many broadcast system. Gordo > > -- > "Think Feynman"///////// > http://pobox.com/~gordo/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv
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