J-Bone

As brickfrog mentioned, you can stream MP4 easily if you enable both sequential download and first/last piece (any torrent client worth its salt has these options).

Sure, but why not unpack them and share the MKV?

I am genuinely curious what containers you are refering to. The only ones that come to mind are DVD and BD.

MKV definitely streams great, IIRC so do AVI and MP4. Almost all video torrents are in MKV with some older ones in AVI and few random MP4s here and there.

The one other issue is RAR’d releases, those can’t be streamed. I honestly don’t understand why people post RAR’d video as it doesn’t really save space.

The other issue (perhaps a much more important one) with streaming torrents is sometimes you can’t get a high enough speed to stream in real time, but that tends to be limited to more niche content (that often isn’t even available via any streaming provider).

Of course it can happen elsewhere.

Just US has a massive influence on tech platforms, and they are currently under-going an oligarch takeover (oligarch influence was already bad irrespective of whether the far right or centre right was in power).

Mind you I am not anti-American. I have largely always defended the US as a matter of pragmatism (it is the largest and most influential democracy-leaning country with a measure of respect for human right). US has done really bad things, but they have done good things as well. I can’t say the same about say China or Russia.

Not an Apple user, so I didn’t know about this. Extremely disappointing.

It really does seem avoiding any and all American services/products (to the extent possible, with exceptions where reasonable) is the only way forward.

I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the US is a ethical, cultural and even economic dead end. Yes even economic, only a fool would believe intense corruption and broad support of criminality and corruption among the population will not have any negative effects in the future.

Wait, what the hell?

I can’t believe this, who the hell are they to decide what I should install?

They are welcome to curate their own store, but sideloading concerns only the user.

Hopefully, the EU and other jurisdictions block this.

Fucking corrupt American oligarchs.