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. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We don't see things as they are, [EMAIL PROTECTED] we see them as we are. www.ssz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anais Nin www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------