Commercial speech, however, is less protected by the First Amendment than political speech, and is therefore subject to greater regulation. The Free Press Clause protects publication of information and opinions, and applies to a wide variety of media.
In computer networking, multicast (one-to-many or many-to-many distribution) is group communication where information is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously.
Using multicast, a source can send a single copy of data to a single multicast address, which is then distributed to an entire group of recipients. A multicast group identifies a set of recipients that are interested in a particular data stream, and is represented by an IP address from a well-defined range.ata sent to this IP address is forwarded to all members of the multicast group. Routers between the source and recipients duplicate data packets and forward multiple copies wherever the path to recipients diverges.