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I always have wondered why peer-to-peer wasn’t the obvious solution to hug of death. More visitors? More servers!

But I get that there are extreme technical hurdles here. Iirc Spotify started off with that and abandoned it. If so, the challenges have so far outweighed the benefits.

But it fits my sense of what the web should/could be. Asymmetric connections (slow upload) and hostile ISP TOS really cemented the server/client distinction ... but I live imagining that a different way is possible.

Congrats on getting Beaker to a real place.




A lot of P2P things are encumbered by patent trolls.


such as?



I was under the assumption that Spotify stopped doing that because P2P was getting blocked by networks? Maybe I'm wrong.


I believe it was due to patents that spotify stopped P2P streaming.





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