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Originally posted by ssj4_android
Have you listened to P2P streaming before talking about it? I think streaming like that is probebly possible. But then people want to use most of their bandwidth for KaZaA.
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I think this is precisely the point.
Whether or not Altnet succeeds with every specific parasitic application it wishes to run on FastTrack users' computers there are remarkable idle bandwidth, computing and storage resources available in p2p communities. Altnet introduced the commercial viewpoint to those resources but as
ssj4_android says why would a p2p user want to waste any bandwidth for something else than filesharing itself. We have already paid once for our bandwidth and computing capacity. Instead of letting a commercial party to tax it further we could donate some of it to coordinated p2p group usage and enjoy the benefits of it e.g. in the form of new content traded from other similar groups.
- tg
