Peercasting Ready for Primetime?
More news about p2p broadcasting:
Slashdotter ZephyrXero writes “Have you ever wanted to run your own internet radio or TV station, but thought the bandwidth would cost too much? While Wired
thinks Peer-to-peer broadcasting, or “peercasting”, will be the future of the internet (previously
posted); Peercast.org
says it’s already here today. Peercast’s software is available for Linux,
Windows, and Mac. You can broadcast both audio and video without needing a whole lot of bandwidth since each audience member also uploads back to the network. The Xiph Foundation
is also working on a similar project called “IceShare,”
but it’s still in planning. Peercast,
still in beta seems to already be fully functional and ready for an audience (even you dial-up guys).”
