I don’t believe one exists, correct me if i am wrong. I believe something like this should be worked on as i sense youtube is going to tighten down soon, too. Would it even be possible?

  • Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes WebRTC is highly similar to BitTorrent. You have your initial uploader who seeds. Every person that then downloads a chunk to watch it is also then capable of sending that chunk back out. Thereby the more people that watch the more people that can watch. Even back in 2012 with the Kodi piracy plugins. You could click on watching a show. And within a minute or two you would be watching the show in decent quality. Though at the time they were actually using straight up bit torrent just tuned to send the first chunks first so you could watch it as it streamed. So as far as bandwidth on storage requirements are concerned is pretty minimal. Unless of course you’re trying to run a large public instance. Then you are still on the hook for some basic storage.