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Over? With all the new vod services like Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime ect ... It all brings back cable souvenirs, meaning than Torrent is stronger than ever.

• phnofive 7y ago
  Probably not what you meant, but I’d think a licensing and technology arrangement that allowed VoD services to deliver content this way (like Skype when it was good) and use customers as a second line CDN would be awesome.
  • catalogia 7y ago
    If customers would be subsidizing the corporation's bandwidth costs, I hope they'd be getting a good discount over what a centralized distribution service with the same licensed content would cost. Donating bandwidth to a community torrent for the general good is not really the same thing as donating bandwidth to a for-profit corporation. I'm much more inclined to do the former than the later.
    • phnofive 7y ago
      This would ultimately be in the form of not further raising prices, and become a standard thing. Don’t have >15 Mbps up? No problem, extra $3 per month.
  • Moru 7y ago
    Didn't some mmorpgs do this to distribute updates over the client while you were playing?
    • mebo 7y ago
      Back in the 2010s, yes, not anymore though afaik, I assume that CDNs/traffic got cheap enough to not go that far. Microsoft actually introduced P2P update sharing with Windows Update for Windows 10, I think it's enabled by default.
      • noisem4ker 7y ago
        P2P Windows updates make sense where large numbers of machines in the same LAN may be updated at the same time.
    • bavell 7y ago
      Blizzard used (uses?) it to distribute patches for WoW. Back in the day the patches were quite large (multi GB) compared to available bandwidth at the time.
  • DanBC 7y ago
    BBC used to do this with their early implementations of iPlayer. It was very unpopular then because people had expensive bandwidth and the feature wasn't clearly described. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer#'iPlayer_1.0' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer#'iPlayer_1.0'