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> If you're using my machine and my bandwidth to host or transfer your video to another person, you're going to pay me for it That's a bit ridiculous. No one i
by onli 8y ago
> If you're using my machine and my bandwidth to host or transfer your video to another person, you're going to pay me for it
That's a bit ridiculous. No one is ever gonna pay you for that. You get something for free, the video you want to watch, and the deal here is that your unused upload bandwidth gets used to help transfer it to others. It's a social contract thing, and thinking you might get a better deal magically by refusing it won't make that deal appear.
> You're slowing down my connection
In which way? It is using your upload while you download a video. That does not harm you.
> causing me send data to someone I do not know
You never seeded a torrent? You never connected to an internet site you did not know the owner of? It's pretty much the same thing.
> You're going to be liable for anything malicious that gets sent back
Who is the you here? A Peertube instance won't be liable for malicious data, how would that even work anyway. Even if it were possible: The websites spreading malware with their ads were not liable either. This won't happen.
> if you're MitM'ing it to scan it properly, why are you wasting my bandwidth and storage?
Right, that would be a bad idea.
- wild_preference 8y agoJust because you’re downloading something doesn’t mean uploads don’t affect it. In fact, upload often cripples bandwidth. https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction/ https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction...
- mikewhy 8y ago> It is using your upload while you download a video. That does not harm you. An outbound connection is one of the very first things that happens when requesting anything over a network. Not to mention if you're doing any video chatting or gaming.
- shittyadmin 8y ago> thinking you might get a better deal magically by refusing it won't make that deal appear. I mean, actually he trivially could get that deal by modifying the client a bit - but as long as the majority of people don't go out of their way to do that it doesn't really matter if there are leechers. As long as there are a handful of people like myself who have big pipes and rarely use them to their fullest, who seed public torrents to 200x because why the hell not, you're not going to have a serious issue. Honestly, if PeerTube wants to catch on, all it has to do is be easy to use and full of pirated content.
- drexlspivey 8y ago> That's a bit ridiculous. No one is ever gonna pay you for that. There is a p2p network that does exactly that using cryptocurrency tokens. https://substratum.net/ https://substratum.net/
- sleepyams 8y agoAlso FileCoin: https://filecoin.io/ https://filecoin.io/
- contravariant 8y agoI think you should be able to limit the upload rate though, although maybe the browser should be responsible for that.
- Endy 8y agoAny time you allow the browser to do something without user input, you take away more user control and put it in the hands of a browser developer. That's a mistake.