Brenda Ann wrote:

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Clients like Shoutcast and Icecast have at least two faults:

N.B. Icecast is currently the preferred, and open source, solution.

1) They count on your own internet connection as you are the server. These
days, very few connections have diddly for upload speeds. Live365 has their
own servers, so you only need to have one constant stream for all your
listeners.

So consider doing multicast; consider establishing a tunneled private
mcast backbone if necessary.

2) They are not technically legal, as they pay no royalties. This is then
left up to the individual netcasters, most of whom pay no royalties at all.

A rather limited viewpoint IMHO; large numbers of icecast streams are of
original source and live material and not 'commercial airplay' as your
statement implies.

Michael