On 30/07/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With regards to EULAs, I think we all saw from the Sony DRM 'incident' that > EULAs have been ruled virtually unenforceable. I'm prepared to seed content > I've downloadd whilst it's downloading, and maybe seed it for a little while > afterwards, but I'm much less generous than when I'm torrenting because the > content will always be available from the BBC servers, and we are paying for > this service after all. > > Here's hoping that the BBC takes onboard the suggestions from people like me > with regards to the ability to control whether your client seeds content > once you've downloaded it... Here's hoping the Kontiki client can actually > be configured to do so! > > I foresee ISPs enforcing QoS for upload data from Kontiki so that it slows > to a crawl as a way around this... But that won't be after a whole load of > huge bills from providers to customers, along with the associated uproar and > a few months of in-circles discussion as to how the best way to proceed to > counter-act this unwanted behaviour will be. > > Maybe the Beeb WILL just drop Kontiki eventually and do what BBC America is > doing, using Vuze as their CDN and just keeping the DRM backend for the > geoip authorisation? (as has been mentioned before)... It's starting to look > more and more like that viable solution for the interim!
So far my graphical network monitor & traffic stats show iPLayer only uploading while actually downloading, & using circa 70% upload bandwidth. Perhaps it's been set to a 'semi-p2p' where the client machines support the BBC servers by uploading only during actual downloads. My guess is that when evening comes it may become more active (it's supposed to be 'dynamic') - if the BBC servers start to struggle we may see heavier action. Very little info on Kontiki - owned by Verisign, duh. Wayback Machine is overloaded right now - can't look at their earlier sites heh heh, I'll try that early in the morning. I'm a big Azureus fan - not tried Vuze, essentially a skinned & DRMd AZ2.5 with tweaks hidden but available: http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Azureus_2_and_Vuze Azureus 2.5 has binaries for Win/Linux/MAC/BSD but Vuze is Win only d/t DRM I guess. Regards, Nico Morrison __________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: nicomorrison __________________________ - 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]/
