You can't play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they own his compositions

Re:You can't play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they ow... by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:28AM (#17925445)

At some level, isn't webtorrent a privacy issue? You're broadcasting, "Hey, I'm viewing $FOO! Anyone wanna give me pieces of it?"

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Re:You can't play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they ow... by mirimir on Thursday September 06, 2018 @09:50PM (#17931321)

That's part of it. And more generally with WebRTC, peers know whatever you're doing together. And that's an issue with all P2P stuff that doesn't use overlay networks to proxy connections.

So what I should have said was that it's OK in a VM that reaches the Internet through a nested VPN chain, or whatever, so your ISP-assigned IP address isn't trivially discoverable.

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