It was.
They discontinued that for the regular videos, for a couple reasons:
- Most of the time, there would only be a one or a very few users watching a video simultaneously. Hence, the use of WebTorrent technology would primarily add technological complexity, while not providing substantial advantages in terms of hosting costs. Now, my hope is that that calculation will change if they're doing livestreaming with tens or hundreds of simultaneous users. If BitChute makes it big, maybe they can look at something like creating a 'desktop app' with built in capabilities to download and seed videos, and if enough people are interested in hosting videos themselves, maybe using WebTorrent on the regular site starts to make more sense.
- Shysters like /hebe/wheels who are being paid to attack internet freedom want nothing more than to leverage WebTorrent tech to attack BitChute and other alternative media platforms
"Noted child porn distributor" Frederick Brennan, who posted headers at the time he was running his mass shooter hub 8chan on the front page making fun of the victims of nude photo hacking (some of them underage)
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would have liked nothing more than to leverage the use of WebTorrents to dox actual human beings. Here's what he would have done if they'd still been using WebTorrent:
- Write a quick script to hit the trackers BitChute was configured to use, for a range of videos on the site (either everything or just channels with mean hurty speech)
- Run that repeatedly for a few days to collect IPs of BitChute video viewers
- Filter for government, esp. military IP ranges. Send out mass "please explain" emails with the intent of getting people fired, so he could write that in his article
- Same with big business
- If he's feeling less lazy than usual, maybe do some targeted pretexting at ISPs to try and target individuals watching more 'extreme' videos
Revenge porn fan Frederick Brennan is just angry that he wasn't able to run his original plan. He isn't even remotely interested in a decentralized internet.
His collaborator who wrote the Shorenstein Center hit piece, Zach Exley (1969-12-05), lives with his wife Elizabeth and daughter Esther at 608 Lucas Lane, Crane, Missouri 65633.
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I must admit to having a little respect for Andrew Yang, but it's all gone after discovering that he
pays shysters like Exley to do his dirty work.