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Thanks for the detailed answer! It's already there. The piratebay already serves me movies at 200 MBps with almost zero infrastructure cost. It's probably more

• zamadatix 5y ago
  It's "not already there" as what torrents do is not the same as what Netflix does even though both are related to media delivery. Try seeking on a torrent which only caches the local blocks and getting the same seek delay, try getting instant start and seek when 1 million people are watching a launch, try getting people to pay you the same amount to use their upload, try getting the same battery life on a torrent as a single HTTPS stream using burst intervals. As I said P2P doesn't offer as many experience consistency guarantees and has many other problems. Licensing is just one of many issues. Of course for free many people are willing to live with starting and seeking being slow or battery life being worse or having to allocate the storage up front or using their upload and so on but again the question is can it fit in the cost offset of some of the centralized infrastructure not what you could do for free. I don't have anything against torrents, quite the opposite I am quite a heavy user of BOTH streaming services and torrenting due to DRM restrictions on quality for some of my devices, but it isn't a single issue problem like you are pressing to make it be. For some internal distributed action Netflix has made IPFS into something they can use but not for end delivery https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-container-distribution/ https://blog.ipfs.io/2020-02-14-improved-bitswap-for-contain...