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This may be interesting to some. I recently discovered AllCast.com which has developed a p2p streaming solution. Unfortunately they decided to use WMA due to it's video capability but hopefully they could be presuaded to switch to Vorbis later when Tarkin is available. For audio though, it appears a good way to reduce bandwidth requirements at the broadcasting end and potentially

it could be a bit of a minefield - i seem to remember reading of the requests for some fairly wide patents a couple of years back by um, vtrails, on anything that involves browsers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/isoc-ny/message/20 the most effective multicast sevice i've seen is swarmcast - a slashdot thread on the topic of software distro has recent words from the author

Hi Jack, Ross & all... We have been working with V-Trails in refining their solution for Mp3 streaming and will be bearing the fruits of this labor starting this weekend publicly with 5 different "Audiorealm Network" stations for first initial public testing - after final testing we look to release this solution NETWORK wide - making the Audiorealm.com Network effectively the first

A friend and I were recently talking about the possible downfall of Internet radio, and as everyone seems to these days, decided that a nice solution would be to set up a P2P broadcasting solution. However, streaming has a completely different set of requirements than file sharing, with bandwidth and QOS become much larger issues. As such, we started to realize that a new audio compression scheme