It's polio, no one likes it.

marsupials also have a much lower body temperature than placental mammals.

Bats, which are not marsupials, have a really high body temperature and can live to like 30.

I saw a youtube video covering a paper that explained that even though they catch viruses the high temperature makes it really hard on the virus, so bats can basically ignore the infection. Bad for us since they also fly so they make great carriers, but the bats have it pretty good.

Integrate all into one app, and it's close enough functionally that it could compete, and that's all you really need.

I mean, I'm not in networking so maybe you're right and I'm totally out of touch with the basics. Downloads don't even need to be instant. People scroll and save videos to watch later all the time. Maybe I'm ignorant, but it seems like the technology (torrent networks) already exists and this just requires slapping a pretty interface on top of it.

Honestly, it sounds more like a marketing problem than a networking problem.

Are you sure they're not just... playing opossum?

Creating an infrastructure that could potentially ingest terrabytes of data per second, and then processing it into multiple resolutions, is a massive ask.

Yeah, but that's a bad approach.

A website that just hosts links, a torrent to video script, and a like-button that's a magnetic link is all you need to set up a youtube competitor. The creators can host their own videos, and their fans can help them. Sure there's a lot of quality of life stuff that integrating a torrent client and browser would help with like automatically using file selection to host only the resolutions you watch up to or automatically deleting videos after a certain time unless you've extra likes them, but the underlying system is functional. For steaming, do whatever peertube is doing.

Thank you for your deep insight repeating what the other commenters said but rudely.