[aaron695]

> degrades their control over the content

Encryption (can work with sharing), signatures, fall back to CDN. Control is not an issue.

> torrents are good enough.

Torrents can't do the massive market of livestream, like sports or season finales or reality TV / news. This is the entire point of the question.

> The only entities

And everyone kicked off of YouTube or doesn't want to use big corporations on principal, like Hacker Cons or the open source community.

[notpushkin]

> Encryption (can work with sharing), signatures, fall back to CDN. Control is not an issue.

And of course if an encryption key gets leaked, you can just rotate it. Since it’s a stream, past content is not as important.

(That said, I don’t think it will help — any DRM can be cracked, and there’s plenty of online TV streaming sites even with the current centralized systems.)

[Calwestjobs]

you can stream blockbuster movie which got released yesterday. DRM is important.

[Calwestjobs]

"Torrents can't do the massive market of livestream" CAN do, why are we not using them is not technical reason, it is that most people just pay apple tv / netflix and not have to install anything on their computer, and UI / interface is 10000 times better.

or very similar point - i had conversation with some big youtuber and person was confused why he is not more popular with certain demographic. reason was that said demographic was watching on big TV and content he was filming was big head directly in front of camera. so they do not like having 3 feet big head right in front of them... most young people watch things on mobile..