is watching streams p2p streaming?

streaming is just watching anything that doesn't actually get downloaded


i thought?

Ashley_Young why would i be fishing? genuinely asking this

just cant work it out.. cause the stream is coming from someone else so therefore surely its p2p?

I average 18 viruses a match, its all worth it though, get it up yers Rupert!

well one person uploads it, another person watches it and it's a constant stream of data rather than a download = P2P streaming??


Why are you bothered, is it keeping you from sleep? [:)]

I can confirm if you are watching a stream, you are streaming.

In a peer to peer system, each computer that participates in the system has some kind of resource (data, computing capacity, disk space, algorithms, etc.) that it offers to the other users of the system. In a multimedia peer to peer system, the most common resource is constituted by data files. A computer needing a particular file or algorithm will send a request for it to all or some of the participants of the system. The participants that have that resource available will answer, possibly with some additional information about the computer on which the resource is located, such as its computing power, network bandwidth, work load at the moment, etc. Based on this information, the requester contacts one of the participants that answered, and instaurates with it a one to one communication during which the file is exchanged, or the algorithm is invoked, the disk space is allocated and used, etc.

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/6860/Peer-to-Peer-Systems.html