Adobe's newest Flash player to be fully P2P-capable, able to shift bandwidth usage to the users

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Adobe's product manager of Flash Media Server recently spilled the beans about his company's efforts to build the upcoming release of Flash player 10.1 to fully utilize a built-in P2P network, specifically meant to alleviate bandwidth costs for media providers. The service would work through the use of a system called Stratus, which Adobe says can be used to facilitate all manner of P2P Flash activities. While it could be used for anything from multiplayer Flash games to Flash-based chat, it's streaming video that really stands to gain from the idea.

At least, it stands to gain from it if you're looking at this from a major video provider's point of view -- like CBS, ABC, NBC, or Hulu.

In other words, sites like Hulu will soon have the option of shifting a large portion of the bandwidth burden over to the people watching the videos, instead of serving up data to each and every user. This would allow the big networks to stream video content and reap the rewards of mass advertising, while only paying a fraction of the bandwidth cost as it currently stands.

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