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Torrents. Either the dumb rentier platform wars end in an open streaming protocol standard, or we just stick with piracy. Capitalism is absurdly inefficient.
by treelovinhippie 7y ago
Torrents. Either the dumb rentier platform wars end in an open streaming protocol standard, or we just stick with piracy. Capitalism is absurdly inefficient.
- rntksi 7y agoExactly my thoughts as well. This is similar to Steam vs other platforms.
- realityking 7y agoAssuming we had an open streaming protocol standard and standard clients, how would that solve the issue of competing streaming services all wanting their own monthly fee and offering different content? No one cares about the protocol and the client - people want their content.
- treelovinhippie 7y agoThe idea is to decouple the content from the platform. So one way you could do it is have the content deployed to an open distributed file storage and streaming protocol (IPFS or Holochain perhaps, blockchain will never scale). Content creators upload it to this network and the content becomes a standalone entity. Platforms then have full open access to the content. The platforms compete on the UX/UI and recommendation algorithm layers. Every platform will have access to all content. But if Netflix provides the best viewing experience then people will pay a monthly fee to use it. Each time the content is streamed, the user (or platform) pays a microfee per minute watched which goes directly back to the content creator. Omitting quite a few technical details but you get the gist.
- ap3 7y ago6.99 ? Why even torrent?
- treelovinhippie 7y agoBecause it's not $6.99. It's $6.99 multiplied by every platform silo in which the content you want to view is held captive.