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If google push too hard, someone will make a "youtube mirror" - ie. a complete copy of youtube at a different domain.

The actual data could be hosted p2p across all the users devices, and any missing data retrieved one-time-only from real youtube servers.

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Do you have an estimate of how much would be needed to mirror?

BTW PeerTube is a thing.

1GB per video

That website will have an IP address and a registered owner. Taking down piracy websites is routine for governments, server providers, and domain registrars now, and they don't care whether the site is actually illegal. You can only get away with this long-term if the site is hosted in Russia, but Russia is sanctioned so how will you pay them?

Eh, somehow The Pirate Bay, Fitgirl Repacks, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub etc seem to manage it.

The real challenge is delivering good enough performance that your site is better than waiting through 30 seconds of ads; and making it worth your time to run the site: there's hassle, legal risk, and it's not like you can run ads to make some cash.

They're all severely bandwidth limited. Wouldn't work for YouTube. TPB and FGR get around this using torrents.

Has there ever actually been a success story for using end user mobile handsets as servers?

I guess you never received a copyright infringement notice from your ISP for seeding a torrent.

> The actual data could be hosted p2p across all the users devices

Sounds like a Pied Piper app.

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