Within the Italian Nexa Center for internet and Society mailing list, there was recently a discussion on the IP-level blocking forced by the government's judges to ISPs against "informal/unofficial" football video streaming services.
I learned that those kind of services, usually provide browsers plug-in to distribute the streaming in a semi-p2p-bittorrent-way. Btw, the IP-blocking regardless of the reasons, is basically censorship. I was wondering if Tor network couldn't be a network/platform for that kind of video-streaming-services. Obviously the problem is that video-streaming require a lot of bandwidth and massive-services attract a lot of users, so even brainstorming something about it, would imply thinking a network/application design that does not increase linearly the bandwidth resources required for each new user. So, it come up to my mind that in MAN (metropolitan area network) that share a common network topology and software, multicast is used for that kind of purposes. On my italian fiber service provider Fastweb, when i use their own TV with their own set-top-box and click "Channel X", there's basically a "join" to a multicast group, that will then deliver me the streaming and in their network topology there are "edges" that does cache and redistribute the content. So, i was wondering if the multicast streaming concept for content distribution with edges-caching, couldn't fit somehow in a future Tor network use-cases or design. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - https://ahmia.fi -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
