Jonathan, see: http://webtorrent.io (Still a work in progress)
How does WebTorrent work? https://github.com/feross/webtorrent/issues/39 Feross ✩ blog <http://feross.org/> | ✎ studynotes <http://www.apstudynotes.org/> |☮ webtorrent <http://webtorrent.io/> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:50 AM, ChaTo (Carlos Alberto Alejandro CASTILLO Ocaranza) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > An answer to the "single point of failure" of having a URL to pull the > content is to use a secure distribution mechanism. > > I think a great candidate is BitMessage, which I have been using for some > months now: https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page > > BitMessage is a secure peer-to-peer communications protocol that allows > you to broadcast a message (or receive a broadcast message) without > revealing your IP address. > > Cheers, > > On 04/06/2014 11:41 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > Hi list, > Can some tech liberator out there versed in javascript and video > streaming please take over the popcorn-time project? It looks like it was > developed pseudonymously by at least three teams now which have all > disappeared (probably due to pressure from Hollywood). > > If you haven't heard of it, see: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time > > Why should this interest you? > > * Licensed GPL v3 > * Has the most user-friendly interface I've seen in a piece of free > software > * Runs on GNU/Linux, OSX, Windows > * Streams downloads efficiently and uses Bittorrent to seed while the user > watches (with no setup or intervention by the user) > * Accessibility. Looks like the project is getting bullied with a game of > whack-a-mole, probably due to pressure from Hollywood. AFAICT there is no > new technology being used-- the original devs used mostly pre-existing libs > to make something that is easy to use. What everyone on this list can do > using Transmission and VLC can now be done by non-experts. > > How to stop the game of whack-a-mole? > > There needs to be something like a "popcorn kernel" team. It should use > exactly the same API as the software currently does, but just have a place > where the user can type in an address from which to pull the content. It'd > be pretty easy to host a tracker with one or two public domain titles and > test with that. Then if a site like archive.org decides to adopt the YTF > API to access its public domain videos, users can just add that address and > start streaming the content. (And again because they are also seeding this > helps out archive.org, so it's a win-win.) > > That would remove the only controversial line of code-- the url of YTF-- > so that anyone who wants to improve the software may do it without being > bullied. Also, if there were a well-known organization dedicated to > hosting and defending free software that could host the repo and front page > it would lower the risk of a rogue, suspicious site putting up downloads > with malware in them. (And each time Popcorn-time gets resurrected at some > new domain that risk increases.) > > The original code is still on github. Not sure about the other > incarnations. It's worth noting that there seemed to be quite a bit of > activity on each incarnation (bug fixes, improvements) so it might be worth > it to try to find a link to the most recent incarnation. (And since it's > git it should be easy to audit the changes.) > > I really wish I knew javascript and node.js. Then I'd just do it myself. > :) > > Best, > Jonathan > > > -- > ChaTo (Carlos Castillo) <http://chato.cl/> > LinkedIn <http://linkedin.com/in/chato> · > Facebook<https://facebook.com/chato>· > Twitter <http://twitter.com/chatox> > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. >
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