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Something like Popcorn Time is the future both as a client and moving to a shared backend where people can more easily split hosting fees... Because how many co

Something like Popcorn Time is the future both as a client and moving to a shared backend where people can more easily split hosting fees... Because how many copies of The Big Lebowski need to be duplicated all over the place if there's plenty of bandwidth to serve it? A hosting service like Mega with the security of Tarsnap that could host and de-duplicate torrents would be very interesting. Imagine being able to instantly watch a movie if someone else on the same service happens to have already got it.

throwaway7767 13y ago
>A hosting service like Mega with the security of Tarsnap that could host and de-duplicate torrents would be very interesting. Tarsnaps security is based on client-side encryption. They cannot read the plaintext. Therefore if more than one person uploads the same file, they will have two different encrypted versions of the same file, which can not be deduplicated. You could use convergent encryption, but then users can query each others files.