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Probably not what you meant, but I’d think a licensing and technology arrangement that allowed VoD services to deliver content this way (like Skype when it was
by phnofive 7y ago
Probably not what you meant, but I’d think a licensing and technology arrangement that allowed VoD services to deliver content this way (like Skype when it was good) and use customers as a second line CDN would be awesome.
- catalogia 7y agoIf customers would be subsidizing the corporation's bandwidth costs, I hope they'd be getting a good discount over what a centralized distribution service with the same licensed content would cost. Donating bandwidth to a community torrent for the general good is not really the same thing as donating bandwidth to a for-profit corporation. I'm much more inclined to do the former than the later.
- phnofive 7y agoThis would ultimately be in the form of not further raising prices, and become a standard thing. Don’t have >15 Mbps up? No problem, extra $3 per month.
- Moru 7y agoDidn't some mmorpgs do this to distribute updates over the client while you were playing?
- mebo 7y agoBack in the 2010s, yes, not anymore though afaik, I assume that CDNs/traffic got cheap enough to not go that far. Microsoft actually introduced P2P update sharing with Windows Update for Windows 10, I think it's enabled by default.
- noisem4ker 7y agoP2P Windows updates make sense where large numbers of machines in the same LAN may be updated at the same time.
- bavell 7y agoBlizzard used (uses?) it to distribute patches for WoW. Back in the day the patches were quite large (multi GB) compared to available bandwidth at the time.
- DanBC 7y agoBBC used to do this with their early implementations of iPlayer. It was very unpopular then because people had expensive bandwidth and the feature wasn't clearly described. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer#'iPlayer_1.0' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer#'iPlayer_1.0'