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Re: WebTorrent
#2This is pretty cool, but wouldn't it make it harder to get seeds in the first place?
Just imagining someone getting their file and closing the torrent tab, I guess you could try and address this with some UI callouts, but as a frequent torrenter, since it runs on a dedicated machine/application I tend to seed heavily.
Re: WebTorrent
#3This is pretty cool, but wouldn't it make it harder to get seeds in the first place? Just imagining someone getting their file and closing the torrent tab, I guess you could try and address this with some UI callouts, but as a frequent torrenter, since it runs on a dedicated machine/application I tend to seed heavily.
Fortunately there are other ways to seed independent of WebTorrent clients.
You are right, it'll be mainly used for HnRs. In some cases this is okay or even desirable.
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#4This is pretty cool, but wouldn't it make it harder to get seeds in the first place? Just imagining someone getting their file and closing the torrent tab, I guess you could try and address this with some UI callouts, but as a frequent torrenter, since it runs on a dedicated machine/application I tend to seed heavily.
I once thought about using webtorrents on a video on-demand site that I was hosting. The idea would've been that I'd have the video available on the server both through HTTP and BitTorrent, and when a lot of people start watching the same VOD at the same time, they'd help seed it to each other and reduce the burden on the server.
Never actually made it since the server that I had was actually good enough to serve people at least decently.
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#5Besides being an amazing technical achievement, I find this very interesting legally, as it further blurs the line between passively viewing content hosted somewhere and redistributing/actively sharing content.
Have there already been cases of websites making their visitors unwitting peers, similar to e.g. JavaScript cryptocurrency mining?
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#6Besides being an amazing technical achievement, I find this very interesting legally, as it further blurs the line between passively viewing content hosted somewhere and redistributing/actively sharing content. Have there already been cases of websites making their visitors unwitting peers, similar to e.g. JavaScript cryptocurrency mining?
My first thought was like "Oh, this is like CryptoJacking a browser window but for file storage instead".
Of course, it is technically amazing, and pretty neat that this is possible at all, and could have some very interesting edge-use-cases.
Re: WebTorrent
#7If implemented this use the webseed feature so you can get serverless seeding. You can add the seed dynamically on the client when there are no peers as indicated by the tracker.
Re: WebTorrent
#8This is pretty cool, but wouldn't it make it harder to get seeds in the first place? Just imagining someone getting their file and closing the torrent tab, I guess you could try and address this with some UI callouts, but as a frequent torrenter, since it runs on a dedicated machine/application I tend to seed heavily.
Fortunately there are other ways to seed independent of WebTorrent clients. You are right, it'll be mainly used for HnRs. In some cases this is okay or even desirable.
> ...it'll be mainly used for HnRs...
Evil work-around: show "file-progress" as % of 2:1 seeding? File isn't 'downloaded' until you have uploaded 2x!
Re: WebTorrent
#9I couldn't find out at a glance, but is the webrtc connection between peers encrypted or plain sniff-able?
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#10Really great concept. I found this also interesting https://hypercore-protocol.org/