I'm an ex-CTO of Livestation, which was a profit-making firm doing OTT TV. Short version: news channels are so keen to get soft power projection, they'll pay y

I'm an ex-CTO of Livestation, which was a profit-making firm doing OTT TV. Short version: news channels are so keen to get soft power projection, they'll pay you to carry them. That was started as a validation to prove peer to peer Silverlight was the future. As you can tell from looking around you today, that didn't work: it ended up being a pretty standard HLS/HDS stack. Eventually it pivoted to UGC live-streaming and became an app called Busker before dying out. This stuff is harder than it looks, but there is a massive, massive market for it if you can find a way to make the numbers work. As a research project this looks nifty, but be aware: GeoIP DBs are awful for geofencing particularly on US/Canada.