Den 28 jun 2015 04:28 skrev "Zenaan Harkness" <[1]zen@freedbms.net>:
   >
   > For quite some years, I never watched any youtubes - then there was a
   > Java-based website which could download them, but it was cumbersome.
   >
   > Then there was youtube-dl, and now youtube is starting to head
   towards
   > reasonable by my standards, or rather, a reasonable protocol for
   > "consuming" content - pre-emptive local storage of everything.

   [...]

   > In a "perfect" world, all articles, all content is indexed with git,
   > or in a git-compatible way, providing enhanced possibilities for
   > caching, verifying, indexing, retrieval, duplication/ backup, and
   > sharing and synchronizing with fellow private net sharers. As this
   > concept and its implementation become pervasive, some publishers
   would
   > take advantage of it as a form of compression to reduce publishing
   > bandwidth requirements (somewhat analogous to torrents, but with
   > greater integrity of the data being distributed).

   [2]http://ipfs.io/

   Close enough for the underlying framework?

References

   1. mailto:zen@freedbms.net
   2. http://ipfs.io/