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[p1necone]

Nah you're fine. I'm getting serious "ideological/political argument" vibes off the other commenter.

I recognize the other commenters tactics as the same "throw a bunch of dubious claims at the wall, force your opponent to spend way more time refuting each one than it took you to make them, and as soon as they look like they're climbing out move the goalposts again" thing that I see in political arguments with half drunk friends and strangers on political subreddits :P

I'm sure I've seen a great webcomic that describes this somewhere but I can't find it...

[laumars → p1necone]

Your only point was popcorn time and that stacks up poorly against a good RMTP stream.

The problem we have here is that a bunch of hackers have seen it can be done with BT (which nobody is saying it can't be) and then assuming that BT is suitable for someone like Netflix. If it were that clear cut then we would already be using it. But the fact remains BT doesn't actually stack up that good against already established technologies we use for video streaming.

I'm not saying this for the sake of an "ideological/political argument", this is a well researched point I've discovered doing my professional day job.

It's ever so easy to hack something together that works for a bunch for non-payment customers who just want to pirate something. It's a whole other ball game to build a production service with advertisers (where applicable) and other partners and sell that to paying customers.

What you're doing is comparing a kit car to a bus and saying they're the same because they both transport people. Then assuming the kit car can transport the 40 people at a time for 12 hours a day every day because you've made the previous logical assumption of equivalence.