- Mar 18, 2005
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I was thinking recently about all the new streaming tech that is coming out for Steam and such and it had considering the potential for people to "rent" out their PCs with tons of games installed on them to other people. Say I had a decent rig and while I wasn't playing, I would lend it to others to stream my games. Sure there are the same issues as Onlive such as latency, but it does bring up an interesting question.
Someone can come over to my house and play my games on my TV/console/PC, but can I use that same PC/console to send the feed directly to their house without meddling in piracy laws. None of the core files would leave my system which could bypass piracy laws.
The obvious next step would be a company paying you for them to borrow your GPU computing power to lend to someone else to play games while you aren't.
FWIW, this is only a philosophical question and future use question, not if it can be implemented now.
Someone can come over to my house and play my games on my TV/console/PC, but can I use that same PC/console to send the feed directly to their house without meddling in piracy laws. None of the core files would leave my system which could bypass piracy laws.
The obvious next step would be a company paying you for them to borrow your GPU computing power to lend to someone else to play games while you aren't.
FWIW, this is only a philosophical question and future use question, not if it can be implemented now.