Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown

[Nicole <nmh () daemontech com>]

 Yes, AOL has always been know for less than original image quality. But we are
often having users getting no image. WIth the images show up as broken images
(red x) in their browsers about 30% of the time.
 
 "Optimized" is one thing but "optimzed" to oblivion is very painful.  
Tracerouting to them is very slow while inside their network, altho
perhaps due to prioritizing. 
  
 As far a tampering with the images. Their was a lawsuit in england not long
ago over cache engines containing a copy of the image. But I don't remember the
outcome. 

  Nicole


On 30-Jan-04 Unnamed Administration sources reported Daniel Senie said :
> At 07:37 PM 1/29/2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>
> > Thus spake "Kevin Loch" <kloch () gurunet net>
> > > Nicole wrote:
> > > >  In the past few days our AOL users have been reporting serious problems
> > >
> > > Several Brickshelf users have complained about the new "blurry images"
> > > problem using AOL.  I have not heard any reports of broken images or
> > > upload problems yet.
> >
> > In the past, some ISPs have used a quality-reduction algorithm on images to
> > "speed up" dialup users' experience; I assume that's what AOL has adopted.
>
> Gotta use their lingo... your stuff's been optimized!
>
> I have been thinking about whether the use of lossy compression methods 
> would constitute tampering with copyrighted material. After all, if a site 
> was carefully designed to provide optimized images of fine art, and AOL or 
> other ISPs mess with the quality, the value of the site content would be 
> decreased, and the site could lose business due to users thinking the 
> quality of the images is bad.
>
>
> > This reminds me of an old saying, "you can make any computation go faster if
> > you don't care if it gives the right answer."
>
> Heh.



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