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A comment on Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer?.

Re:Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer? by pant on Saturday December 28, 2013 @07:33AM (#6974861)
http://simplewebrtc.com/demo.html

Webrtc is here with p2p transmission of the camera + microphone (or files of course). I think it's time for all of us to move to p2p solutions that will come.

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Re:Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer? by waps on Saturday December 28, 2013 @08:23AM (#6974934)
Actually it supports sending any byte stream accross. It amazes me nobody seem to have built a peer2peer network out of it yet.

Seems like a shot for open goal.

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Re:Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer? by mike_hearn on Saturday December 28, 2013 @10:24AM (#6975157)
Why would you do that vs just writing a normal downloadable app?
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Re:Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer? by salient on Saturday December 28, 2013 @08:59AM (#6974986)
Well there's P2P file sharing through WebRTC:

https://www.sharefest.me/

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Re:Ask HN: Skype, but properly peer-to-peer? by vr000m on Saturday December 28, 2013 @10:09AM (#6975130)
Yahoo bought PeerCDN, which uses data channels from WebRTC.
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