I want these things to implement peer to peer caching, so that when 10 people are watching the same video, only one downloads from youtubes own servers.
Then it's just a matter of letting people add their own videos directly to the service and it can become fully independent of YouTube.
this is exactly why i worked on webtorrent ~13 years ago <a href="https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent
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Then it's just a matter of letting people add their own videos directly to the service and it can become fully independent of YouTube.
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