On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, 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'.
> >
> > > Information from Web sites must be requested, the equivalent of ordering a
> > > book or newspaper,
>
> At the IP level, sending an IP packet to a specific address is no more a
> broadcast than sending a piece of mail through the postal service.
Nobody (but perhaps you by inference) is claiming it is identical,
however, it -is- a broadcast (just consider how a packet gets routed,
consider the TTL for example or how a ping works). Each packet you send
out goes to many places -besides- the shortest route to the target host
(which is how the shortest route is found).
The comparison is close enough to have validity.
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