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Is this the end of PAY TV ?

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  • #2
    Chalk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,317 ✭✭✭Chalk


    seano wrote:
    is this the end of PAY TV ?
    Is the provider protected?
    Yes, our developers work hard to find out the IP-adress of providers of a channel and viewers of a channel. But unfortunatly at the moment for technical reasons, it is ABSOLUT IMPOSSIBLE to find out the IP of providers, as well as of spectators. So the network is 100% anonym. Maybe we receive some help from broadcasters or copyright owners someday to fix that bug.


    heheh
    sounds like the love child of bitorrent and a tv card. ;)


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Internet is a *VERY* bad medium for broadcast feeds. It simply can't compete at all with quantity of users watching a normal definition feed.

    Even if it was technically possible for 50Million people to watch 100 channels via broadband, this would has as much likelyhood of killing PayTV as DIVx pirate movie downloads have of killing €8 DVD sales.

    Satellite can support about 6000 HD channels per area, with coverage of > 2000Million people per $500,000 pa channel. Internet will never do this.

    Internet is a Few to Few network technology and Satellite a Few to Everyone Bradcast technology.


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