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Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming. Philip Frey Thomas Locher Remo Meier Stefan Schmid Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer Distributed Computing Group, ETH Zurich. Meeting with University of St. Gallen, FIR-HSG September 20, 2006. Goals of StreamTorrent.
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Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming Philip Frey Thomas Locher Remo Meier Stefan Schmid Prof. Dr. Roger Wattenhofer Distributed Computing Group, ETH Zurich Meeting with University of St. Gallen, FIR-HSG September 20, 2006
Goals of StreamTorrent • Users can publish own streams over our infrastructure • Sport events, DJs, VJs, etc. • Can be searched and downloaded by other users. • Offering own streams? TV-shows? Movies? • Collaboration possible? • Similar to Zattoo? • Features: • Scalable to thousands of users. • Resilient against malicious users, churn, ... • Peer-to-peer, no dedicated servers needed. • Streams available everywhere in the world (behind firewalls, NATs, etc.). • “Pause Button”, (Programmable) Recording (like VCR!), … Remo Meier and Stefan Schmid @ HSG Meeting, 2006
Demo Remo Meier and Stefan Schmid @ HSG Meeting, 2006
From Computer Science to Law… • Having solved the technical problems, we have to learn about the law! • Sample Questions: • Are we responsible for contents streamed on our StreamTorrent infrastructure / with our software? • Are uploading peers responsible for the contents? • What contracts are possible with TV stations? E.g., streaming SF2 to the U.S.? (License?) • Separating protocol, player, and web sites? • Switzerland vs. Europe vs. World? • Other legal threats? Is it realistic at all? Tendency in future? => Cooperation with HSG, e.g., a master thesis? Remo Meier and Stefan Schmid @ HSG Meeting, 2006
Thank you. Thank you for your attention! Remo Meier and Stefan Schmid @ HSG Meeting, 2006