I have a hunch that WebRTC is going to make P2P a much more mainstream technology. Once most people are running browsers with WebRTC support, and there are good

I have a hunch that WebRTC is going to make P2P a much more mainstream technology. Once most people are running browsers with WebRTC support, and there are good high-level libraries available for developers, I think we'll start to see it used for all kinds of things — not just real-time video conferencing, but all kinds of information sharing and dissemination, both real-time and who-cares-about-real-time, just because WebRTC will be there, will (mostly) work, and will be (relatively) easy. You mentioned something about saving bandwidth costs, and I admit I've had a few ideas for bootstrap startups where I've thought, "Well, I could do this, but the second it became semi-popular I'd go broke and have to shut it down," and then, "If only there was a way to have the apps distribute the data P2P, so I didn't have to pay for every single user downloading from the server."