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Posted by Chilly8 on November 5, 2007, 1:21 pm
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> Chilly8 wrote:
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>> Within only a few minutes of your posting that site, I IMMEDIATELY
>> started seeing a spike in traffic to my online radio station,
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> News for you: Absolutely no one care for your stupid online radio, neither
> is administrating a stream server anything special any more.
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>> Keep up the good work boys, you proxies help to keep those of us
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> > in the Internet radio business accessible,
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> Yes, keep up to work to suggest people circumventing their company's IT
> policy, putting both their jobs and the network into danger.
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> > so that our advertisers will get the exposure they PAID for.
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> Advertisers pay for _assumed_ exposure based on exposure data _in the
> past_. If the exposure is less than expected it's their problem. Aside
> from that, from a moral point of view advertisers should go to hell, since
> they try making money from stuff that doesn't add any value to anything.
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>> Keep churning out those proxues and do your part to keep Internet
>> radio stations on business ;)
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> Are you stupid or what? This is a HTTP proxy, which, due to the comparably
> high overhead, high latencies, being based on the connection-full TCP
> layer and being incompatible with multicast this puts your streaming
> server on additional load, both CPU and bandwidth.
Well, Live 365 has come up with some way to make connections
UNSPOTTABLE. You see, there has been one oddity in the
rules. It is against the rules for me to give out the direct-connect
IP, but not for users to find it on their own and use it, and they
have come up with a way to prevent the end-user from getting
it. It just checked out, and, indeed, the connection to any Live
365 station does not show up in any traffic analysis. This also
means that if its invisible to users, it will be invisible to network
admins as well. So anyone right now could be listening to
Live 365 stations, and all monitoring software will not pick it up.
They have somehow come up with a way to keep the connection
from being spotted.
Of course, they need to do that with the looming royalty rate
increases. They need all the banner ad revenue they can get
their hands on, and direct connect through a third-party player
would keep banner ads (but not audio ads) from reaching
users. Their move to guarantee that every listener (unless they
have a VIP subscription) sees the banners ads, will also make
the connections INVISIBLE to network admins as well.
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