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by joeguilmette 4952 days ago
I hope YouTube et al are asleep at the wheel long enough for this to take control of large scale live events away from them - the Baumgartner jump, the debates, it'd be nice to see these handled by P2P technology...
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Well, maybe. In reality they really only need their hands on the control channel (whatever that is here) and can leave the bulk data delivery to peer-to-peer routing like the internet was designed for.