Well, I'm pretty sure bandwidth is an insignificant cost for streaming music providers. It's the copyright license fees that are cripplingly prohibitive.
-david Kriss Andsten wrote: > On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Michael Rogers wrote: > >> I've heard that Spotify has a P2P element to its transport layer, which >> would change the economic picture somewhat if true - does anyone have >> any more information about that? > > Yes, that's correct for Spotify on the desktop: > http://www.spotify.com/en/help/faq/#tech (under "Why does Spotify use so many > internet connections?"). Spotify on mobile phones, however, doesn't use P2P. > > The app is using a proprietary protocol. Rather slick engineering and a good > user experience for a P2P app. > >> Cheers, >> Michael > > Kriss > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
