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Using Skype to Multicast

December 15, 2005 |

I found some interesting discussions on what the consequences of being able to use Skype for multicasting would be. The question people are fixated on here is what if somebody in England could watch football from the US or somebody in the US could watch soccer from England.

Basically, right now this is a non-issue, but it could soon be a fexing question for Skype and its partner eBay. At this point, the video just isn’t good enough for this to work yet. It fullfills its purpose of saying hello to far away family members, but it is not even close to soemthing even resembling broadcast quality. Anyway - a question worth pondering. Just goes to show how old the legacy broadcasting models are becoming in a networked, global society.

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Basically when you add in encryption that Skype already has it becomes impossible to know what’s going through the pipe. That means someone in London could in effect Skypecast English Premiere League Football to an ex-pat in the USA. Vice versa someone here in the USA could Skypecast NBA basketball, which has rights deals in other parts of the world, virtually anywhere.

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