Re: Could sniffers provide way for low bandwidth broadcasting over the Internet?

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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znark