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Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by lambada on Monday September 03, 2012 @02:30PM (#4471323)
Yes, it is more work but also in terms of the bandwidth to serve these awards via their own service it would be far more expensive (not to mention hard to maintain reliability of service). Yes, I suspect most of us could pull a basic stream together pretty quickly, but that stream would likely not be up to the standard that would be expected of such a prestigious ceremony.
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by windle on Monday September 03, 2012 @02:37PM (#4471341)
Exactly why we need Bittorrent Live to take off. P2P live video streaming can help bypass shoddy bots.
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by rabidsnail on Monday September 03, 2012 @04:27PM (#4471709)
Hate to rain on your parade, but ISP-level NAT is coming (it's already here on mobile) and it breaks P2P. Hole-punching doesn't work, you can't manually open ports, and they don't support UPnP. If everyone is behind a nat who is left to tunnel through? Why, a central platform! Skype already went down this road.
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by jordanthoms on Monday September 03, 2012 @07:19PM (#4472241)
Hopefully ISPs will be smart enough to provide native ipv6 before they start doing NAT on their ipv4 addresses.
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by rabidsnail on Monday September 03, 2012 @09:36PM (#4472660)
Given that they're all also cable tv providers, I'm not sure how smart providing ipv6 would be.
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by btbuilder on Monday September 03, 2012 @09:41PM (#4472671)
Why would UDP holepunching be affected?
Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by vidarh on Monday September 03, 2012 @04:50PM (#4471780)
I'm reasonably confident it won't take much to beat the standards set by having copyright enforcement bots taking the thing offline.