pifs VS btfs

This is actually a thing: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs

> I've always found the "hey Twitter friends, I wrote a guide, buy it for $90 now!" stuff super unethical anyways. First of all, the information they sell that way is 100% available for free somewhere else or is useless. They're usually mediocre in their fields, but have chops for social media marketing.

true.

but the fact that every and all information is be encoded within pi[1] does somehow not slience the intellectual property debate.

probably because arrangement and presentation also have value.

[1] https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs

Theoretically, not depending on the content, nearly 0: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs

Something in a similar vein: BTFS, mount a torrent file (or magnet link) as a read only drive https://github.com/johang/btfs

It's really good, and use it a lot of times

Github Page

Some systems are more appropriate than just those options, but it requires player cooperation.

For instance on Android, NOVA Video Player supports torrent streaming. Or btplay from https://github.com/johang/btfs .

The way they work is better for the network, because it asks only for the N next MB from current position to be available ASAP, but the rest can be downloaded randomly to help the network like a standard client would do.