<story><title>The Inside Story of BitTorrent Inc’s Collapse</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse-a0766a5442d7#---199-286.jihd0r4lo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conradev</author><text>I wish BitTorrent Live was made open source. There are a number of companies working on &amp;quot;P2P CDNs&amp;quot; for live streaming[1][2][3], but all of their work is proprietary. The companies&amp;#x27; sales pitches are usually around efficiency: it allows providers to pay for less CDN capacity.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m more interested in the decentralization aspect. It makes live streams hard to censor and easy to distribute.&lt;p&gt;The closest open source equivalent we have is PPSPP (Peer-to-Peer Streaming Peer Protocol), or RFC 7574[4]. Unfortunately, the reference implementation, libswift[5], was seemingly abandoned a few years ago. In addition, PPSPP only deals with a stream of bytes, and while it was made with video in mind there is no implementation that handles video well: making different swarms for different quality levels, intelligent chunking, perhaps even deterministic encoding[6].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.peer5.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.peer5.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;viblast.com&amp;#x2F;pdn&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;viblast.com&amp;#x2F;pdn&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.streamroot.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.streamroot.io&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tools.ietf.org&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;rfc7574&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tools.ietf.org&amp;#x2F;html&amp;#x2F;rfc7574&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;libswift&amp;#x2F;libswift&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;devel&amp;#x2F;TODO&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;libswift&amp;#x2F;libswift&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;devel&amp;#x2F;TODO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ndsl.kaist.edu&amp;#x2F;~kyoungsoo&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;mmsys14.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ndsl.kaist.edu&amp;#x2F;~kyoungsoo&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;mmsys14.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Inside Story of BitTorrent Inc’s Collapse</title><url>https://backchannel.com/the-inside-story-of-bittorrents-bizarre-collapse-a0766a5442d7#---199-286.jihd0r4lo</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>empath75</author><text>Bittorrent is an amazing protocol, but it seemed like creating a &amp;#x27;Bittorrent&amp;#x27; company is like trying to start an &amp;quot;Http&amp;quot; company.</text></comment>