• boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    That sounds like a very strange model comparing to how empowering and decentralized real torrenting is.

    There even us btfs which allows to mount filesystems over bittorrent and access on demand.

    And I am sure that bittorrent over Javascript on a Website would be possible.

    Like Snowflake runs as a browser extension and people connect over WebRTC

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Pirate websites like this usually rely on the shadier ad networks baked into these kinds of video streaming sites to make their money.

      There’s no financial incentive to use BitTorrent based streaming, and if they did I feel the torrents would die rapidly just due to the amount of leechers with barely any seeders to offset the ratio disparity (Unless some kind of webseed was available ?)

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        2 months ago

        I mean it is likely also safer as it is encrypted?

        Using a VPN service and installing qBittorrent is pretty easy.