On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:28 -0800, David Barrett wrote: > Well, I'm pretty sure bandwidth is an insignificant cost for streaming > music providers. It's the copyright license fees that are cripplingly > prohibitive. >
Actually I have been asking myself this question. What are the costs of maintaining a large scale content provider? Is P2P necessary? Is it economically viable? Bandwidth costs are probably smaller than copyright license, but I'm not sure if they are insignificant. In a different context, Liu et al. showed that 500 GB ~ 1 TB of files are uploaded per day to their online storage system, http://www.cse.ust.hk/~lfxad/publications/liu-icc09.pdf (page 2) That is why they suggest the use of peer-to-peer... Best regards, Daniel > -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 _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
