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Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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What prevents PeerTube instances from being used as Popcorn Time? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by ajr@lemmy.ml to c/peertube@lemmy.ml
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Since the videos are shared via p2p when being streamed, what prevents an instance to upload copyrighted material like Popcorn Time? Are there any instances with movies?

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[–] downdaemon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Whenever I tried it, it would only download from the webserver source, but it should support web clients too