> I need to sit down to give this more thought, but I still think there's value in P2P networks, and it's worth pursuing.
My argument against this is just because it's purely peer-to-peer, it doesn't always directly mean it's an overall improvement in the user experience.
> You should be able to easily replicate and share content that you care about.
Yes there is definitely value in that, I even agree with there! But I personally think turning the whole thing into a completely peer-to-peer approach isn't the answer. It's the raw shit problems about bandwidth capability and network latency which really matters - which, if you've tried streaming from utorrent/bittorrent before, it's very obvious that the experience is still greatly affected by the lack of a little centralization that YouTube has.
> The big incentive is being able to keep your own copy and being able to do whatever you want with it. How many times have you tried searching for an old YouTube video, only to find it got taken down?
Neutral on this, very nuanced since most of the time it involves legal issues and opinionated perspectives, lol.
The lack of upstream bandwidth offered by cable providers almost seems deliberate. (I.e. a disinterest in improving the upstream capabilities of docsis standards, as well as offering pitiful upstream bandwidth in their plans.)
My argument against this is just because it's purely peer-to-peer, it doesn't always directly mean it's an overall improvement in the user experience.
> You should be able to easily replicate and share content that you care about.
Yes there is definitely value in that, I even agree with there! But I personally think turning the whole thing into a completely peer-to-peer approach isn't the answer. It's the raw shit problems about bandwidth capability and network latency which really matters - which, if you've tried streaming from utorrent/bittorrent before, it's very obvious that the experience is still greatly affected by the lack of a little centralization that YouTube has.
> The big incentive is being able to keep your own copy and being able to do whatever you want with it. How many times have you tried searching for an old YouTube video, only to find it got taken down?
Neutral on this, very nuanced since most of the time it involves legal issues and opinionated perspectives, lol.