Jim Choate wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve Schear wrote:
>> From the article:
>> "The court dismissed suggestions the Internet was different from
>> other broadcasters, who could decide how far their signal was to be
>> transmitted."
>> This is totally bogus thinking. The Internet is not broadcast medium.
> Yes, it is. Every site that emits a packet broadcasts it onto the
> network. One can even make a comparison between 'frequency &
> modulation' with 'IP & service'.
no, it isn't.
By that argument, you could say that a hard disk is a broadcast medium -
because the data is there and you can just "tune" to any track and sector
and pull back the information - or a library is a broadcast medium because
you can retrieve books by going there and locating them by section and ISBN
number
Webcast is marginally a broadcast medium - because ISPs can aggregate
multiple requests into a single datastream - but the internet is largely
search-and-retrieve; it would be surprising to find a webserver sending data
to your isp anyhow "just in case you request it"
