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I wonder how hard it would be to create a protocol which avoids problems like this. A user who wants to publish a video could do that in the form of special li
by TekMol 5y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to create a protocol which avoids problems like this.
A user who wants to publish a video could do that in the form of special links which contain a hash of the video (maybe magnet links do that?).
They could do that on their own website for example. Or in multiple places. Their website, their GitHub pages, their Twitter etc.
The viewer (say Joe) who wants to see such a video would click the special link and have a software that searches it on a decentralized network of nodes.
Some other viewer (say Paul) who recently viewed the video and still has it in his cache could deliver the video to Joe.
In return, Joe could automatically get some crypto currency. Say worth $0.01 or so.
Content aggregators could crawl all these sites and create an experience similar to YouTube. Or maybe this could also be implemented in a decentralized fashion.
- genewitch 5y agoNo one wants to wait for decentralized videos to load. Sure, the hundred or thousand most popular videos will load relatively quickly, but some video I saw 10 years ago that is relevant to a conversation I am having would either take a very long time to load, or not load at all. And now you, the human, as a content producer, need to game the algorithm to be viral with every video. Don't get me wrong I think YouTube and Google drop the ball constantly, but you can't decentralize content distribution and have the selection you do now. It'd be like going back to the 70s with broadcast television.
- TekMol 5y agoIf the $0.01 is more than what it costs to store the video until someone requests it and deliver it, then loading will be super fast. Because tons of players in the market will compete for this margin.
- photon-torpedo 5y agoThis, minus the cryptocurrency, is IPFS. (Though I've never used it, so I may be wrong.)
- TekMol 5y agoWithout currency, what is the incentive for nodes to cache and forward content?
- noman-land 5y agoThere are some systems which are implementing stuff like this, like IPFS and Filecoin, Storj, Swarm, and others. We could really use a decentralized YouTube. Our collective culture just should not be living behind YouTube's walls.