i literally talked to bram cohen about this in person. this is why he was developing bittorrent live which unfortunately became closed source.
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Bram didn't make WebTorrent, Feross did.
its still the bittorrent protocol, over the web. I don't see how that changes anything I said
i think we just have different definitions of performance. if you think webtorrent beats youtube in terms of performance I don't know what to say.
Youtube is performant because its http to a geographically close datacenter.
WebTorrent layered over a traditional CDN is the same exact thing
I'm not sure what's so hard to understand, WebTorrent is regular CDN capable with regular HLS chunking... same exact performance, it's additive when it reduces bandwidth costs by shedding chunks over RTC to peers.
Yahoo literally used this for their content delivery at massive scale already, your assumptions are wrong.
It's not Bittorrent, it's still http and HLS... WebTorrent as additive not subtractive.