So I am kind of opposed to piracy but the novel idea of a peer based CDN has its merit. Imagine an encrypted framework where Netflix operates in a peer to peer communication. It would drastically reduce the overhead a streaming service would require to send content to users. If people are all watching the similar content or opt-in to supporting the network chunks of data could stored across many customer peers to com…
Spotify used to run a P2P network to serve music[1], which they seemed to have shut down in 2014[2].
[1] https://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/spotify-p2p10....
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/17/spotify-removes-peer-to-pe...