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It has the advantage over torrent that you don’t have to hide yourself behind a VPNs to keep from getting sued for illegal doings.
by nomel 2y ago
It has the advantage over torrent that you don’t have to hide yourself behind a VPNs to keep from getting sued for illegal doings.
- XorNot 2y agoThe point is that if an ad hoc distributed network of unfunded peers can do it, the barrier to entry is not that high for any well funded major enterprise which wants a slice of the pie. Basically I'd be curious to know if they felt internally that they'd transition to a service provider or something if they had to.
- nomel 2y agoThe plethora of streaming services suggest you’re correct in the barrier not being that high.
- Ekaros 2y agoOn other hand you needed VPN to get interesting content... So quite a wash, I don't know where they are now with geoblocking.
- mitthrowaway2 2y agoThat's not a technology moat, that's a copyright moat.