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The protocol for a torrent is that random parts of a file get seeded to random people requesting a file, and that the clients which act as seeds are able to store arbitrary amounts of data to then forward to other clients in the swarm. Do the properties about scaling still hold when it's a bunch of people all requesting real time data which has to be in-order? Do the distributed Rokus, Apple TVs, Fire TVs and other smart TVs all have the headroom in compute and storage to be able to simultaneously decode video and keep old video data in RAM and manage network connections with upload to other TVs in their swarm - and will uploading data to other TVs in the swarm not negatively impact their own download speeds?
parent Edman274 2 years ago

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