[annonch]

>"provide pointers to a more traditional decentralized P2P network like BitTorrent"

What does this statement mean, links to IPFS? trackers to bittorrent?

[jackrobison]

The metadata stored in the blockchain contains a hash to the header blob of data for the stream. Peers for this header and later data blobs are found on the lbry DHT. Once peers are found the blobs are downloaded over a tcp based protocol.