On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 07:09:44AM +0100, Lee Fuller wrote: > Hey Fabian, can I throw a question here, there's nothing attached, just pure > curiosity. You guys used to donate heaps of bandwidth to Di.FM when it first > started. Do you still sponsor streaming services with free transit? It amazed > me that you were the silent partner carrying most of their packets completely > FOC. > > Again, not starting any sort of streaming *anything* just never had the chance > to ask someone from AOL that question. > > Kudos for sponsoring CentOS > > Lee Fuller Lee, FYI, Jacob is with AOL, Fabian is not :) I would suspect this died with the sale of Winamp and Shoutcast to Radionomy. I used to work in the Internet Access and Streaming Operations groups at AOL and yes it was very cool that we offered free bandwidth / streaming. This was mostly due to AOL having plenty of spare bandwidth and their own backbone via ATDN. http://www.atdn.net/network_map.shtml -- Bryan G. Seitz