Another area of interest that caught my attention when thinking about downloading is a similar idea of ‘streaming’. Streaming multimedia in contrast to downloading is multimedia that is constantly received by and normally displayed to the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider. There are such things as datagram protocols which send the media stream as a series of small packets. So basically a person will visit a web page hosted on a web server and finds a file he or she would like to see or hear. The web server would then send a message to a streaming media server, requesting the particular file and the streaming server streams the file to the person’s computer, bypassing the web server. Finally the client software on the person’s computer will decode and play the file. People are now able to create their own streaming videos at home…so one can record a video; digitize, encode and compress it; upload it to a server; and then it can be streamed to a other user’s computers where it is decoded. Youtube is an example of one of these servers that allows Youtubers to create their own streaming channel and invite others to share existing YouTube videos.
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The problem with streaming files is that many people get very irritated having to go onto the internet and search for things whenever they want to hear a song or watch a video that they like. Other than that streaming is a very easy method that does cut down on piracy as many severices such as Youtube don't allow a user to download files
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