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I want to build a social network, and use a p2p protocol for sharing large files. I know that peertube claimed to use bittorrent, but then it seemed to drop it? What's the catch? And is ipfs better or worse?
TLDR: it can't connect to normal trackers without a bridge
Or if the desktop clients add WebRTC support. Sod of them have done it others are in the process of adding the support
Not quite. Opera had built-in support for Bittorrent for quite some time: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/ec79j/til_yo...
> WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. YEP, THAT'S RIGHT. THE BROWSER. Not quite. Opera had built-in support for Bittorrent for quite some time: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/ec79j/til_yo...
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Well spotted. In other words, WebRTC lets a site owner have their visitors distribute content directly to others without their knowledge or consent, basically making it impossible to argue that the distributor has intent to do so in the general case. That said, it was already highly questionable for legal application, since a torrent client can run on any machine connected to a home wifi, including guests and comprom…
Intent isn’t always nessesary for a conviction. Child porn comes instantly to mind.
I'm building a decentralized ai marketplace and guess what? This piece of software is the backbone of our off-chain file transfer protocol. It just works; however, its seeder (BitTorrent-tracker) depends on node-webrtc, and it is not an official node package for web-rtc. It has some weird issues. For example, when you seed the torrent through BitTorrent-tracker, and on the client side (chrome browser), I used chrome:…
Besides 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?
I am on a 200GB capped residential LTE internet connection. Upload is included in that data cap. If this was surreptitiously deployed that would cost me money and generally be not cool.
> WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. YEP, THAT'S RIGHT. THE BROWSER. Not quite. Opera had built-in support for Bittorrent for quite some time: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/ec79j/til_yo...
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This isn't true. In 2017 appear.in published some numbers. They saw ~15% were not able to do P2P. https://medium.com/@fippo/what-kind-of-turn-server-is-being-... Reading your stackoverflow link my guess is that you aren't using STUN. A P2P connection can't be established without a NAT hole punch. Also if possible I would avoid the terms `Full-cone NAT` and `Symmetric NAT` they don't do a good job of describing what i…
> In 2017 appear.in published some numbers. They saw ~15% were not able to do P2P. https://medium.com/@fippo/what-kind-of-turn-server-is-being- ... Thank you for this. I guess P2P connectivity is more often possible than I thought! For the record, I have tried to form P2P connections with multiple different devices and multiple different network conditions, and although I have been able to achieve connectivity with P…
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> In 2017 appear.in published some numbers. They saw ~15% were not able to do P2P. https://medium.com/@fippo/what-kind-of-turn-server-is-being- ... Thank you for this. I guess P2P connectivity is more often possible than I thought! For the record, I have tried to form P2P connections with multiple different devices and multiple different network conditions, and although I have been able to achieve connectivity with P…
Tailscale has a really excellent explanation of STUN and NAT Traversal: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/