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    1 year ago

    The problem isn’t storing it, it’s hosting and delivering content.

    YouTube, Netflix, and all the other big streaming platforms have huge amounts of servers around the world delivering content with minimal latency and without saturating the Internet exchanges with gigantic amounts of data traffic.

    If we were to do this peer-2-peer people would have to get used to waiting for pages and videos to load again.

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      So long as the video runs continuously once the page loads, I’m not particularly bothered by latency. Admittedly I’m not everyone, but I think most people care more about the content than the UX. I mean, hell, YouTube has a pretty miserable UX in different ways, not from lack skill on the part of the people who make and maintain it or limitations of technology, but from the poor cooperate incentives and goals that govern it.

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        It probably wouldn’t. Or you would have to wait a long time.

        Try streaming from a site across the world and see how it is today. Then imagine saturating the networks with loads of it.

        Would definitely need new infrastructure to cache popular content.