<story><title>BitTorrent&apos;s Bram Cohen Patents Live Streaming Protocol</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-s-bram-cohen-patents-revolutionary-live-streaming-protocol-130326/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yk</author><text>Usually I would give someone like Bram Cohen the benefit of doubt, but this paragraph:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    “We want people to use and adopt BitTorrent Live. But
    we aren’t planning on encouraging alternative 
    implementation because it’s a tricky protocol to 
    implement and poorly behaved peers can impact everyone. 
    We want to ensure a quality experience for all and this 
    is the best approach for us to take,” Cohen told 
    TorrentFreak. 
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
So they are relying on the patent system to ensure that every peer is playing nicely? In a p2p protocol? What could possibly go wrong?</text></comment>
<story><title>BitTorrent&apos;s Bram Cohen Patents Live Streaming Protocol</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-s-bram-cohen-patents-revolutionary-live-streaming-protocol-130326/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>huhtenberg</author><text>I really like Bram, but what &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; revolutionary here?&lt;p&gt;I was pretty heavily involved in p2p field back in the early &apos;00 and I&apos;ve read extensively on the subject. Even back then there was &lt;i&gt;plenty&lt;/i&gt; of research into peer-casting, including peer clustering by proximity metrics. The idea is bloody obvious, and it all inevitably boils down to constructing an efficient and resilient overlay networks, which is a very well researched domain. The reason there&apos;s not much of it implemented is because there is always a simpler (read - dumber) solutions that worked just as well in practice. Think YouTube vs. Joost.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone with a more recent exposure to p2p stuff comment on whether this is indeed an innovation or is it just a PR spin on a patent application?</text></comment>