Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill () herrin us>

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Jason Iannone
> <jason.iannone () gmail com> wrote:
> > Seems like as good at time as any for Netflix to go distributed peer
> > to peer.
>
> Sure, because what paying customer would object to his vendor
> consuming his bandwidth to service other customers and what content
> provider would object to storing their content for redistribution on
> random client machines?

Well, Radio Paradise, which uses Octoshape for precisely this. 

But they're admittedly a special case.  Still, Octoshape does seem to be
staying in business...

Cheers,
-- jra
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