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IDEA No 59
WEB STREAMING
On 24 June 1993, Severe Tire Damage performed the first live concert on the Net. Their 152 x 76-pixel live stream used about half the available bandwidth of the entire internet.
Severe Tire Damage (STD) were based in the San Francisco Bay area of California. Band members worked at Apple, DEC and Xerox PARC. In the summer of 1993, they were asked to play in Xerox PARC’s car park, and they decided to stream the gig over the internet. Slightly worried about copyright, they rang Sony Music to check if they needed to pay royalties on a cover version they intended to perform. Sony’s response was ‘Music on the internet? Don’t worry, it’s not an issue.’
The following year, the Rolling Stones broadcast ...
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