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P2P is going to be a big challenge for tons of reasons. Set top boxes aren't going to play. Lots of people are behind NATs that make it hard to connect. Mobile is battery sensitive and sending to peers is going to eat more battery. Some users pay for every byte they send, and they won't want to pay for you to save operating costs. Plus all the other stuff everyone said about latency.


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