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		mikeryan on May 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twi... You'd want to do something like HLS which can use standard HTTP but not directly to someone's home. You'd need some sort of CDN or cloud intermediary to handle the load. Or some sort of peer-to-peer Popcorn time style (Bittorrent Live?[1]) that can distribute the load across all viewers. Hmm... "Twitch-Time" may be an interesting way to resurrect that service. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/15/5414430/bittorrent-live-mo...

pferde on May 19, 2014 | [–]

Wasn't multicast designed for something like this?

morenoh149 on May 19, 2014 | | [–]

I feel like multicast could solve a lot of similar problems. But not every router on the internet plays nicely with it.

TheLoneWolfling on May 19, 2014 | [–]

Peer-to-peer streaming doesn't really work well generally, unfortunately.

It inherently increases latency.

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