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I recently discovered that you don't need a big public HTTP tracker like The Pirate Bay to share a torrent. You can just add a UDP tracker like the one at opentrackr.org and share the magnet link.
It seems like this would be a better solution than the usual "I'll upload this to a filehost so you can download it" business. It's faster, no threat of DMCA takedown, no risk of an upload failing and having to start over, you can pause a download and resume it later if you need to... I wonder why plain ol' bittorrent isn't used more for this kind of personal filesharing. Like who needs peertube? People can just say "I have a new video, here's the magnet link, check it out." You can even configure the client to download the parts sequentially so you can watch as it downloads
True, most people don't have the upstream to support more than one or two people doing this at the same time, but for small networks of people sharing videos with their friends maybe that's enough
torrents
And if we're okay with lower resolutions and less-than-perfect quality, we could share videos with each other like this a lot more easily. Pirate TV and radio stations were never ideal perfect crisp quality, but they were watchable. Stuff like youtube and twitch gave us the illusion of the democratization of broadcasting outside of the sphere of capitalist interests, but now that the rose-colored veneer is starting to chip off those glasses, maybe it's time to lower our standards again. HD is a construct of the bourgeoisie