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user-inactivated  ·  4462 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cowards

I had forgotten... it occurred to me that for YouTube, you could utilize WebRTC to stream, and everyone would host a little chunk of a video at any given moment.





user-inactivated  ·  4462 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Back when anyone used the eDonkey network, {e,a}Mule had settings to prefer chunks from the start of files, so in principal you could stream video from them. In practice you never got download rates fast enough to do it, so it was mostly just useful for making sure the episode of Firefly you were getting wasn't actually mislabeled CP.