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Re:PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative by ocdtrekkie on Sunday June 24, 2018 @06:17PM (#17388672)
Google and Netflix can do this, because ISPs have to let them host there to avoid massive burden on their network. An individual who wants to host their own videos cannot. So, as Sir_Cmpwn indicates, some sort of torrent-esque system is needed to let individual users have some sort of option that avoids crazy bandwidth costs.
Re:PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative by kyrra on Sunday June 24, 2018 @08:28PM (#17389133)
Does torrent or any other protocol out there try to prioritize peers that are within the same ASN or something similar? Many protocols ignore the physical network, but here it seems like it would help to be smarter.
Re:PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative by rurban on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:35AM (#17406644)
There's no need for manual priorization for nearer ASN's on BitTorrent, as is this builtin implicitly by prioritizing faster connections with higher bandwidths automatically. If a faster connection exists in a different ASN, the faster one is prioritized. Nuclear proof dynamic design, similar to TCP/IP.
Re:PeerTube: A ‘Censorship’ Resistent YouTube Alternative by SpaceGorilla on Monday June 25, 2018 @12:02AM (#17389816)
Huh, this is a really good question/idea.