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Sounds like a recipe for dissatisfied users "Why's my internet slow? Oh, YouTube is uploading a bunch of stuff to other people" "How did I hit my bandwidth ca
by googlryas 2y ago
Sounds like a recipe for dissatisfied users
"Why's my internet slow? Oh, YouTube is uploading a bunch of stuff to other people"
"How did I hit my bandwidth cap for the month already? Oh, youtube is..."
- apitman 2y agoThose problems are implementation specific
- bawolff 2y agoI don't see how you implement p2p without the p2p part.
- apitman 2y agoMy point is you could for example choose not to use very much (or any) extra upload bandwidth without getting user consent first.
- bawolff 2y agoThat's like saying you can choose not to run a website. Like yes, you certainly could choose to do that, but not if you're planning to run a p2p based streaming website.
- apitman 2y agoIt doesn't have to be p2p based. That's unlikely to work well in practice. But it could be p2p augmented opportunistically.
- hamiecod 2y agoBut bandwidth is extremely cheap in 2025 to the point that I do not even check my bandwidth usage and I have never reached my 2TB/month bandwidth cap in the last 3 years. Secondly, the p2p system will be advantageous for the videos that most people watch, i.e., popular videos. This implies that the "popular" video will have a large number of concurrent users who are transmitting a small part of video to just 3 other peers who are then transmitting the same part to 3 other peers. This way, the bandwidth usage for uploading is reduced.