Pushing the limits of JavaScript with P2P and streaming BitTorrent

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Shows a concrete system using nodejs + torrent-stream + WebTorrent and VLC to stream BitTorrent content on demand, with a concurrent piece fetching strategy (fetch critical pieces from multiple peers and drop slow ones — “house shopping”), uses DHT/magnet links for peer discovery (network ~10 million nodes), and implements pure-flix and peer-wiki (browse Wikipedia over torrents) plus a FUSE-backed torrent filesystem. Demonstrations work but are bleeding edge; claim is real-time P2P streaming is practical despite overhead and occasional instability.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:44javascript and bittorrent
3. 3:25how does bittorrent work?
4. 3:38when people think of bittorent they usually think
5. 3:48PIRACY
6. 4:04bittorent is way more than this
7. 4:49nice and simple
8. 6:05what if clients just share data between each other instead?
9. 6:46THIS IS P2P
10. 8:05split the file into pieces ~(512kb - 10mb) and hash each of them
11. 9:20we could just store the list of hashes on a trusted server
12. 10:08list of hashes (torrent file) can be large though...
13. 10:54RECURSION TO THE RESCUE!
14. 11:42use the info hash (magnet link) to verify the hashes
15. 12:16this is basically how bittorrent downloads data
16. 13:05DISTRUBED HASH TABLE
17. 15:03PRETTY SIMPLE
18. 15:47bittorrent can distribute A LOT of content
19. 17:32high latency
20. 18:01improvement: fetch important piece from many peers
21. 20:05IMPLEMENTED THIS
22. 20:21torrent stream is a node module that does this
23. 21:19this is not a gimmick
24. 22:00netflix uses ~1/3 of internet traffic during peak hours source
25. 23:08Mathias, show demo of peerflix
26. 27:47MAD SCIENCE
27. 29:12all of wikipedia is
28. 29:30peerwiki browses wikipedia using bittorrent
29. 34:25FUSE + bittorrent streaming
30. 36:40the P2P space in node is moving rapidly

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