From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 16 17:21:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7741C15207 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06124; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:20:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199909170020.RAA06124@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dinosaur ? Unicast : Multicast ;-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:43:44 EDT." <199909162243.SAA93367@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 17:20:36 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I have a certain bit of experience with commercial multicast services, > and the problem isn't technology- it's a business/financial problem. How > do you deploy a service/capability so that you can survive it's > success? Yes, we technologist can all dismiss this unclean consideration, > but if you can't afford to operate it, then you better not start. > Hmm... What I envision (I am not a marketing type) is that a large ISP could provide multimedia content along the lines of a model similar to such as a TV Channel -- that is you can charge for advertisement , charge for distributing media, and charge the viewer or client to access your network. What is needed is the ability to block unathorized viewers 8) -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message