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Without proper discovery mechanisms any P2P solutions will be DOA. This paper focuses on the technical aspects, which is very warranted, but the reason YouTube

Without proper discovery mechanisms any P2P solutions will be DOA. This paper focuses on the technical aspects, which is very warranted, but the reason YouTube is winning isn't technical per se. Any solution would: 1. Need to have unique content. 2. Have a mechanism to incentivize new content being created. 3. Make it easy to discover (1). These problems can be addressed, but I believe it will inevitably result in centralization.

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Could the index of video checksums (discovery) be decentralised. Could hosting and discovery be treated as separate problems. Or must they be controlled by the same entity, a company with a monopoly on search, promoting its own hosting service in search results, funded by billions in ad sales and conducting mass surveillance on its users, with the costs of transferring data to Google paid for by those being surveilled. Is there more than one way to do it. Is it possible. Does video sharing even have to be a business for every single person who participates. P2P is funded by people paying for internet service. Some folks might just want to share video with a small audience, and not for profit. Friends, family, colleagues, etc. Is every single internet user desperate for traffic. Does every internet user have to imagine themselves as a "tech" company, serving ads, asking for fees to "remove" ads, and collecting data about other people. Not to mention using opaque algorithms to generate "recommendations" that favor an online ad services business model. In any event, P2P might reduce hosting costs, which is obviously a barrier to entry for anyone wanting to host their own video. Even better, it might allow those costs to be financed by other people without: 1. Signing up for anything (submitting personal data) 2. Viewing online ads 3. Facilitating data collection and tracking by "tech" companies
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1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
Could the index (discovery) be decentralised. Cold hosting a discovery be treated as separate problems. Or must they be controlled by the same entity, a company with a monopoly on search, promoting its own hosting service, funded by billions in ad sales and condicting mass data collection about its users, with the costs of transferring data to Google paid for by the user. Is there more than one way to do it. Does this even have to be a business for every single person who participates. P2P is funded by people paying for internet service. Some folks might just want to share video with a small audience, and not for profit. Friends, family, colleagues, etc. Is every single internet user desperate for traffic. Does every internet user have to imagine themselves as a "tech" company, serving ads or charging cryptocurrency, and collecting data about other people.

1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago

Could the index of video checksums (discovery) be decentralised. Could hosting and discovery be treated as separate problems. Or must they be controlled by the same entity, a company with a monopoly on search, promoting its own hosting service in search results, funded by billions in ad sales and conducting mass surveillance on its users, with the costs of transferring data to Google paid for by those being surveilled. Is there more than one way to do it. Is it possible. Does video sharing even have to be a business for every single person who participates. P2P is funded by people paying for internet service. Some folks might just want to share video with a small audience, and not for profit. Friends, family, colleagues, etc. Is every single internet user desperate for traffic. Does every internet user have to imagine themselves as a "tech" company, serving ads, asking for fees to "remove" ads, and collecting data about other people. Not to mention using opaque algorithms to generate "recommendations" that favor an online ad services business model. In any event, P2P might reduce hosting costs, which is obviously a barrier to entry for anyone wanting to host their own video. Even better, it might allow those costs to be financed by other people without: 1. Signing up for anything (submitting personal data) 2. Viewing online ads 3. Facilitating data collection and tracking by "tech" companies

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1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago

Could the index (discovery) be decentralised. Cold hosting a discovery be treated as separate problems. Or must they be controlled by the same entity, a company with a monopoly on search, promoting its own hosting service, funded by billions in ad sales and condicting mass data collection about its users, with the costs of transferring data to Google paid for by the user. Is there more than one way to do it. Does this even have to be a business for every single person who participates. P2P is funded by people paying for internet service. Some folks might just want to share video with a small audience, and not for profit. Friends, family, colleagues, etc. Is every single internet user desperate for traffic. Does every internet user have to imagine themselves as a "tech" company, serving ads or charging cryptocurrency, and collecting data about other people.