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		earnesti 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol lik... I remember testing popcorn time and other bittorrent streaming tools back in the days. They worked "OK". Yes, you don't get the netflix experience. But on popular titles you get "good enough" streaming experience. You have to wait like 30 secs to get started.

fermentation 3 months ago [–]

Part of this was the fact you needed a pretty decent connection speed and that the files themselves were extremely compressed

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