So that means it'll take the RIAA what, 2-3 years to figure out that p2p technology could help it MAKE money, instead of suing people who simply want convenience?

*groan*

yes Lewis that is true but thats Unicast and thats so last decade, im trying to get your average reader to understand the _Multicast_ and tunneling part of this new wave.

put supply, running a Multicasting tunnel and video app will save masses of data ,so much so you could run your own AVC encoded TV station and forget about last decades MP3 raio station video bloging...

the ISPs refuse to re-activate Multicasting on their routers and related kit, SO bypass this lack in insight and make that intigrated Multicast tunnel that the likes of VLC can then use to great effect YES?.

I hear that the download version of the bbc iplayer uses the same software as channel 4's 4 On Demand service.
The software it uses, is called 'kontiki', which is developed /owned by verisign. 
Basically it installs p2p software and runs automatically once you have installed it. There are two services, Khosts and kservices (i think), if you close down the user interface from the taskbar, the other service still runs in the background using up your bandwidth, and has been known to be a bit of a cpu hog as well.

iv tryed to find a meassage board were ic an ask the developers etc questions but they dont sem to have one and the website http://www.p2p-next.org/ is vertially useless,it might as well not exist.

the only question werth knowing is will these guys finally by the first to make a combined generic Multicasting P2p tunnel and app as part of their project or not.

thats the only innovation im interested in today, Unicast is so last decade...

I can tell you that non of my bandwidth is going to be used to spread public european television right off the bat.
I'd rather chew glass really, seeing that's more enjoyable in general you know.
But it's good to know that they are working on crippling internet with freaking sports tv broadcasts, lovely thought.