Well, THAT certainly did take long, now did it? A game designer in England has released some of his designs as an alpha for a new webcasting application called Streamer . The secret? The same good old Gnutella dodge.

If there's no one place for the Evil Empire to put it's thumb down on, they can't effectively kill it!

Called chaincasting, the Streamer technology works a little like Gnutella or other file-swapping services that don't rely on central servers. A stream of music would be relayed through a daisy-chain of listeners and PC relay points across the Net, so that the original broadcast point would be difficult--though not impossible--to track down.

Although Streamer may have technological issues to work out, this model is already up and working in other places. Technologists note that the idea is a more efficient way of distributing streaming media than traditional Webcasting servers.

"I'm not going undercover to hide from the RIAA," says Streamer Designer Iain McLeod. "If people don't oppose their paid-for legislation, then democracy is in serious trouble. Your U.S. democracy doesn't look too healthy from here anyway."

This Iain guy has become my Hero of the Month! Attaboy, you limey bastard! Show them all what it means. The story goes on to say he was inspired by not only the failures of webstations after the royalty edict was passed recently, but by the death of AG, and the actions of HIS heroes: The ship-board British radio pirates of the 60's and 70's. We need more like him

Full story: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941392.html?tag=fd_lede

Company already trying this out: www.chaincast.com

I new someone would find a way around the the royalty payment for webcasting. Hell yeah!!!!

heh

Oh yeah!

BOOYEA!

Cool

coolness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

go Iain it's your birthday!!

Did it work for anyone? I hardly got connections ...

My U.S. democracy does not look too healthy from the U.S. either.

US democracy? When did that start?

Ah well, at least someone finally did something to get around the webcasting laws. Took all of three weeks, too. You go Iain!

TRY LOVEING AWARENESS TRY RADIO CAROLINE------- The Voice of the Gazzelle in Gaza City. and lastly RADIO LUXUMBOURG how can I skip the Ladies of the Evening plying there trade from the North Sea Vironica and caroline to be most specific. 'Peace is a flower that grows in the sunshine its petals are raised to the sky....... The unforgettable opening and closeing song to The Voice of Peace in Isreal. This is what I mean and Radio Caroline was in operation untill 1991 the voice of peace untill 1993 They had many technical problems though. Radio 2000 and 'radio station' in Isreal 'radio station' is active a lot these days A funny note Imagine the text and Telephone dialouge, You should hear people try to report them to the police, 'Caller: Um yes I would like to report a radio violation.. [police talk back] Yes the name of the violator is um well they call themselves 'radio station'... [LOUD police comments] Yes I understand you know its a radio station but that is the name they are useing on the radio to call themselves.....[annoyed sargent tells them to get stuffed politely mind you] Caller: no no no I am not makeing this up! THEY CALL THEMSELVES RADIO STATION.... [me in saferoom next door laughing] he he he he. I have heard it really its funny especially when some old babushkah calles in with broken down hebrew. She says, They are playing it below and its too loud NO its not interfering with my radio TV or Phone or Computer WHAT you can't help me untill there is a real violation!!!!!! WHAT is this! G_d bless the Pirates especially ours he he he he he he he he he he. You have to be willing to go to prison for what you beleve!

Right On!

It's sad to look at our congress and see them accept money from the RIAA to make any bill they want. These are people that we elect to make fair laws and just because someone comes up to them offering them thousands of dollars, they bend over backwards to do what they know we hate. Iain is correct this democracy isin't looking so good. Beat the RIAA at there own game.

Hail Webcasters!!

Hail Mp3!!!

When the americans do it its lobbying. When anyone else does it its corruption. This is the well known american trick of defining away the problem

I looked into a distributed webcasting system like that myself. Its not possible. Not with a stream of that bandwidth. All it could do is buy you a week or so while they get the ISPs to place a sniffer on the relays to see where their traffic is coming from.