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Old September 7th 03, 08:19 PM
Jukka Aho
 
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Richard Hutnik wrote:

Wouldn't it be possible to use this [packet sniffing] ability
to have a cheap way to broadcast sound or video over the Net
to a large number of people, without taxing bandwidth?


A good idea, but it has been already done. It is called
"multicasting". See:

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2002/0520tech.html
http://www.geckil.com/~harvest/multicasting/

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