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TorrentFreak reports on WebTorrent, a project using BitTorrent and WebRTC to transport files:
WebTorrent is a project launched by Feross Aboukhadijeh, a Stanford University graduate who has already booked quite a few successes in his career. After graduating he founded PeerCDN, a P2P-assisted content delivery network, which was sold to Yahoo at the end of 2013. Feross then focused on WebTorrent, convinced that it could revolutionize how the web works today.
"I felt that the idea of 'people-powered websites' – websites that are hosted by the visitors who use them – was too revolutionary to keep locked up as proprietary software, and I wanted to do more to push the idea forward," he tells TF. "Imagine a video site like YouTube, where visitors help to host the site's content. The more people that use a WebTorrent-powered website, the faster and more resilient it becomes."
[...] "WebTorrent is the first torrent client built for the web. It's written completely in JavaScript – the language of the web – and uses WebRTC for true peer-to-peer transport. No browser plugin, extension, or installation is required," Feross tells TF.
Over the past two years WebTorrent has matured into a project that's slowly starting to win over several major tech companies. Netflix, for example, contacted Feross to discuss his technology which they may use to stream their videos. A few months ago Netflix specifically mentioned WebTorrent in a job application, which shows that the video giant is serious about P2P-assisted delivery.
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Feross believes that companies such as Netflix could benefit greatly from WebTorrent. Currently, streaming performance goes down during peak hours but with WebTorrent this shouldn't be a problem.
[...] Netflix aside, there are already various noteworthy implementations of WebTorrent. The project's homepage, for example, shows how easily it can stream video and βTorrent offers a fully functioning torrent client UI.
Other examples include File.pizza, which uses WebTorrent to share files in the browser. The same technology is used for server-less websites by PeerCloud and Webtorrentapp, while GitTorrent uses it to decentralize source control.
In addition to the examples above, the Internet Archive is also looking into the technology for its video distribution, and another major tech company is considering adding WebTorrent support to their web browser.
(Score: 2) by Username on Monday December 14 2015, @06:20AM
Yes, I’d love to view a website where all the images were replaced with photos of doge by some 14 year old kid. Awesome concept. They’ll probably fix that by having the browser download all the files over and over again until it gets one with the correct hash.
I have a better idea. A browser that only renders HTML, CSS, and images. It will be simple, fast and amazing!
There is just too much bloat with browsers today. People are trying to do everything with it. Soon there will be an embedded virtual machine that will be used to run win32 in the browser.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @06:36AM
Bittorrent verifies all of the file pieces with a (mostly) cryptographically strong hash (SHA-160 [bittorrent.org]).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @06:44AM
If you had obtained your brain by BitTorrent, perhaps you would possess the basic skill of reading comprehension.
(Score: 3, Funny) by tftp on Monday December 14 2015, @07:04AM
Do not worry. It is all but impossible to obtain a good photo of a Doge [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1) by jamesbond on Monday December 14 2015, @10:05AM
Too late. Among many others, this already works: http://js-dos.com/ [js-dos.com] and version that support win32 can't be that far behind.