From the Cringley article:
<quote. Looking at this problem from another angle, right now somewhat more than half of all Internet bandwidth is being used for BitTorrent traffic, which is mainly video. Yet if you surveyed your neighbors you'd find that few of them are BitTorrent users. Less than 5 percent of all Internet users are presently consuming more than 50 percent of all bandwidth. Broadband ISPs hate these super users and would like to find ways to isolate or otherwise reject them. It's BitTorrent -- not Yahoo or Google -- that has been the target of the anti-net neutrality trash talk from telcos and cable companies. But the fact is that rather than being an anomaly, these are simply early adopters and we'll all soon follow in their footsteps. And when that happens, there won't be enough bandwidth to support what we want to do from any centralized perspective. A single data center, no matter how large, won't be enough. Google is just the first large player to recognize this fact as their building program proves. </quote> But yet another alternative would be a true P2P network based on WiFi (or?) and very cheap FREEVO type devices. Meanwhile M$ is stuch in DRW lala land. Bittorent + RSS = FREEVO Torrentocracy is a MythTV "plugin" that uses bittorrent aggregation sites RSS feeds. This new MythTV plugin torrentocracy allows you to surf for the latest filez/torrents out there and initiate a download with a flick of your remote. How cool is that? Not that I advocate distribution of copyrighted material, but one can see how having bit torrent potential so close to your collection of PVR'd programming could lead to a "mesh" network of programming between peoples MythTV boxen... That'd be mighty cool homebrew on demand TV =) http://www.byopvr.com/displayarticle85.html Has anyone explored this? Looks like a chance for Lan to go yet another mile (the last mile? :) BobLQ BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
