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In article <3pqnr9$669@wpnext.wpine.com> carl@wpine.com "Carl Koppel" writes:

> Check out http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu.  CU-SeeMe is public domain software
>  which 
> allows you to transmit both audio and video across the internet.

This sounds to me like an abuse of internet bandwidth.  It's only
because the internet has no mechanism for billing for usage that 
products such as this have a niche.  If you use this sort of thing over 
a phone line you pay full whack, but if you use it over the 'net, there
appear to be no cost.

This is false: there are no free lunches, and there is no free 
bandwidth -- someone, somewhere is paying for it, and since this 
software will inevitably use a lot of bandwidth, someone is paying a lot.

Using the net as a way of avoiding paying for bandwidth like this
seems like a really good way to hasten the arrival of some sort of
pricing mechanism.

In the meantime, I want to keep on using the 'net for data, and I hope
that Demon bans its customers from using this software -- so that there
is some capacity left for the rest of us.

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| Philip McNab // philip@siberia.demon.co.uk |