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I think the killer distributed app would be some kind of peer cache of videos from yt, vimeo and so on. You watch YT and your browser stores the movie then shar

I think the killer distributed app would be some kind of peer cache of videos from yt, vimeo and so on. You watch YT and your browser stores the movie then shares it like webtorrent. G decides it doesn't like the movie, bang - deleted! Not so much, still available in distributed cache. I look thru my yt playlist some as old as yt and half of the entries are dead. And there was a lot of original user content too. So much of human art is lost. We have technology we need leadership!

chii 6y ago
other than the threat of copyright strikes, why should anyone allow their bandwidth to be used for this cache? And if you want to view a deleted video, how would you go about finding it on this distributed cache? If you can search people's caches, this is the same as announcing that you have seen such and such video - which may be an invasion of privacy too.' If the original author of the video wanted it to be unremovable, they need to put this up on their own infrastructure they control imho.
duskwuff 6y ago
Take a moment to consider how this architecture would (or would fail to) handle truly abhorrent content -- child abuse, terrorist recruiting material, etc. Not all videos are "human art" which ought to be preserved.