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Which not everyone has. Thus, at the moment, making it a poor business decision.
and even if everyone had broadband it would still be a fairly poor business decision
just because the end user has plenty of bandwidth to listen to a lossless stream does not mean the server has enough bandwidth to support a large number of listeners
this is why most internet radio still uses low bitrate mp3 because you can stream to more listeners that way
because even with FLAC or some other lossless compression you'd want to allow up to 1411Kbps (since we're assuming everything in the broadcast will be 16bit 44.1KHz stereo) for each listener when deciding on the maximum number of listeners your server will allow
Edited by necropimp - 5/21/10 at 3:49pm