Usenet Audio

Carel writes "Everybody who has done some streaming knows the downside: as soon as you're getting popular the costs are getting sky-high. While there have been some efforts in the P2P area these didn't have the impact they need. Enter Usenet Audio, a project that uses the existing, distributed and proven Usenet as its medium. Check the site for details and for the beta-versions of the software (which is available for Linux, OS X and MS platforms)."

April Fools!

[mrklaw]

Download link "Not Found"

BS.

[grub]

whois usenet-audio.com
[snip]
created-date: 2004-03-31
updated-date: 2004-03-31
registration-expiration-date: 2005-03-31

Uh huh. A domain created yesterday for a minimum 1 year term.

Also, searching google for "El-Katabi Investment" or "Nim services BV" (mentioned in their press page) returns no results. Those plugins likely just say "April Fools" over your speakers (if the plugins really exist: one online mirror has none of the files and the other says the limit of 500 users has been reached.)

The goofy idea of streaming over usenet aside, this sounds like YAAFJ (Yet Another April Fools Joke) to me.

Get a CLUE!

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Man, you people who CAN'T FUCKING GET A JOKE are really starting to piss me.... Oh. Nevermind.

Would never happen

[pogle]

April Fools aside, there is no chance of this ever happening. Usenetters are obsessive about not wasting bandwidth, this protocol would never work because the creators would be flamed out of house and home in microseconds. Even worse, the website uses HTML, and thats just plain anathema in Usenet! For shame!

heheheheheh

[zogger]

another good 4-1 submission!

But here's a *real* project, StreamerP2P, [streamerp2p.com] that could use some coders to help out porting to linux and making packages that work.

hint fedora hint

Re:Available on MS platforms?

[STrinity]

FACT: A quarter of all posters to alt.os.linux.suse use Outlook [google.com].