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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by baybal2 on Friday May 24, 2019 @02:50AM (#19999096)
HLS and DASH, or any other protocol along their lines (like what youtube used long ago for own HTTP streaming) are still completely inferior to proper streaming protocol on latency and such. I'd say plain "seeking over http" with range requests does often work with lower latency than best HLS/DASH servers on SSDs.

A proper udp based streaming of course tears HLS to pieces

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by londons_explore on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:15AM (#20013756)
HLS was just a stopgap so providers could use cheap http cdn's.

It worked well enough nobody can be bothered with real streaming now...

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