Re: Do you allow Spotify?

[Robert Lau <rslau () USC EDU>]

According to Spotify's presentation to the IETF in 2009, A Glance at
Spotify's Peer-to-peer Streaming
<http://www.ietf.org/meeting/75/p2p-presentations/documents/spotify-gunnar-k
reitz.pdf>  (pdf), Spotify streams from multiple sources:
1. Spotify's servers
2. P2P network
3. CDN
I do not think Spotify's architecture has changed since then, so when
Spotify is streaming from, or distributing to, peers, its network behavior
is similar to other P2P clients ­ multiple simultaneous connections.

-robert

From:  "John T. Hoffoss" <john.hoffoss () CSU MNSCU EDU>
Reply-To:  The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
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Date:  Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:28:10 -0500
To:  <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Subject:  Re: [SECURITY] Do you allow Spotify?

> On Jul 18, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Russ Leathe wrote:
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> >  Just curious if you have run into issues with allowing Spotify on your
> > network. It's a P2P network and uses multiple connections.
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> Yes we allow spotify and haven't had issues, but it's not a P2P service. It's
> a streaming music service like rdio or pandora.
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> -jth
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