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Nice find, they seem true to their ideals based on that article.

This is also interesting, cool demo of streaming video browser to browser:

That's cool. But I generally block WebRTC, as a privacy threat. But maybe it'd be OK, in a dedicated VM.

At some level, isn't webtorrent a privacy issue? You're broadcasting, "Hey, I'm viewing $FOO! Anyone wanna give me pieces of it?"

That's part of it. And more generally with WebRTC, peers know whatever you're doing together. And that's an issue with all P2P stuff that doesn't use overlay networks to proxy connections.

So what I should have said was that it's OK in a VM that reaches the Internet through a nested VPN chain, or whatever, so your ISP-assigned IP address isn't trivially discoverable.

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