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China is so far ahead of the west in real-time (and live) peer to peer streaming. Look at video systems like QVOD (now dying after state intervention), Xigua, JJVod: they all have a central tracker and use swarms of users to supply realtime video streaming. PopcornTime was a decent example of this but China's been doing it for years - it was live television streaming over p2p first with PPLive, PPS, Sopcast, etc and this then morphed into streaming of films and television. All use a slightly modified version of bittorrent. Most use bittorrent hashes to mark content.

I still can't understand why this has been Bram Cohen's main focus for the last few years and he still doesn't have a working prototype.




> he still doesn't have a working prototype

I suspect he still doesn't have a working prototype he can safely monetize. I don't think the wants to move to China.


Safe is the word but BitTorrent Inc have a habit of throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. They've released so many little products over the years. Sync is one of the few examples that has gained some traction. I'd have expected some kind of live streaming beta if there was a decent example around. But from what I've read, he seems to want to market it to legit networks and distributors and they are not going to do business with BitTorrent Inc.




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