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I get the feeling that a lot of p2p efforts fail because of patents. For example I understand the reason Facetime calls don't go phone-to-phone and instead go
by lathiat 9y ago
I get the feeling that a lot of p2p efforts fail because of patents.
For example I understand the reason Facetime calls don't go phone-to-phone and instead go through a server is because of a patent [troll]. I'm curious to see how WebRTC fits into that.
- seanalltogether 9y agoI think that was more a lesson from observing the problems with Skype and other video conferencing software. P2P video is great when everything is one on one, start adding in additional people and the whole experience grinds to a stuttering pixelated mess.
- thomastjeffery 9y agoThat's for small scale real-time. P2P scales great at a slightly larger scale, especially with larger chunks of data.