Home media servers, AUPs, and upstream bandwidth utilization.

Tue Dec 26 18:07:50 UTC 2006

On Dec 24, 2006, at 11:29 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> So to sum up, the upstream problem you're talking about is already  
> here, it's just that instead of using your own PVR box and then  
> sharing that, someone did this somewhere in the world, encoded it  
> into Xvid and then it is shared between end users (illegally). I  
> believe the problem is the same.

Understood - part of what I'm trying to ask (not very well,  
apparently, heh) is whether presumably non-infringing mechanisms/ 
services such as the Slingbox are viewed and/or would be treated any  
differently than P2P filesharing apps.

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