[SGVLUG] Anyone want to embrace and extend AOL?

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 11/21/05, Emerson, Tom <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> With mixed feelings [Hey, it's AOL], I'm passing along a couple of links to AOL /time-warner press releases.
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> http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1129718,00.html
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> and
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> http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1129725,00.html
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> In a nutshell, AOL is offering full-screen streaming video to their broadband customers, and Warner Brothers will be supplying the initial content [reportedly, back episodes of just about everything... "on-demand"]
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> Some key concepts I noted as I skimmed the first one
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>    -- uses a peer-to-peer model
>    -- uses a "plug-in" to ensure DRM safety and compliance
>    -- it will be "streaming" video, not download-and-play-at-will.

Ya, I read about that some where they are streaming so that you can
not skip the comerials, and the system partialy p2p so that AOL does
not have to foot the entire bandwidth costs.