[syrrim]

>4.

Yes. Bittorrent. It makes use of centralized directories, and centralized trackers, but is otherwise p2p. It suffers from everything weve come to expect from decentralized services. It is only able to survive because no startup can legally disrupt it (not to say no one's tried). In order to use it, a person first has to download a custom client. They also have to visit a completely separate website to get a list of possible torrents. Both the most popular client and the most popular website are riddled with obscene and intrusive ads. What it should have, if it wanted to compete with netflix and spotify, is a web client with the ability to play things instantly. Both those things are antithetical to bittorrent, and so it will continue to lose to the legal avenues.