Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?

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  1. PeerTube

    ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

    What do you mean by never caught on? It's 'live' at https://joinpeertube.org/ where you can either go to https://joinpeertube.org/browse-content and put something into that search form, or limit that search to specific 'instances' under https://joinpeertube.org/instances

    Or to get back to your original question: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/create-upload-video

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  3. webtorrent

    ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

  4. vlc-bittorrent

    A bittorrent plugin for VLC.

    Bittorrent already works fine for streaming:

    https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/

  5. iroh

    IP addresses break, dial keys instead. Modular networking stack in Rust.

  6. iroh-experiments

    a place for things that aren't in iroh, but are useful nonetheless

  7. live-torrent

    Simple proof-of-concept for a live streaming solution based on webtorrent

    Only issue is that the overhead to establish WebRTC connection is heavy, so it's not exactly lightweight...

    0: https://github.com/pldubouilh/live-torrent

  8. torrent

    Full-featured BitTorrent client package and utilities

    BitTorrent v2 has the incremental hashes via merkle trees. They're surprisingly good. I implemented them here https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/issues/175#issuecomment...

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