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		whopa on July 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify for Linux (native) The p2p streaming and encryption is overengineering for this problem. RTMPE works just fine for this.

nmftt on July 13, 2010 [–]

Why would you want to depend on Adobe (or any other company) if you don't have to? You still have to implement your own technology if you want to be in mobile phones, set-top boxes etc. Spotifys cost of scaling is going to be relatively low with Debian, C++, Python, Vorbis, p2p etc.

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