+**PeerTube is sponsored by [Framasoft](https://framatube.org/#en), a non-profit
+that promotes, spreads and develops free culture in general, and free-libre
+software in particular. If you want to support this project, please [consider
+donating to them](https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/).**
+
+<p align="center">
+ <strong>Client</strong>
+
+ <br />
+
+ <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client">
+ <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?path=client" alt="Dependency Status" />
+ </a>
+
+ <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?path=client&type=dev">
+ <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg?path=client" alt="devDependency Status" />
+ </a>
+</p>
+
+<p align="center">
+ <strong>Server</strong>
+
+ <br />
+
+ <a href="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
+ <img src="https://travis-ci.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg?branch=develop" alt="Build Status" />
+ </a>
+
+ <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">
+ <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.svg" alt="Dependencies Status" />
+ </a>
+
+ <a href="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube?type=dev">
+ <img src="https://david-dm.org/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/dev-status.svg" alt="devDependency Status" />
+ </a>
+
+ <a href="http://standardjs.com/">
+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-standard-brightgreen.svg" alt="JavaScript Style Guide" />
+ </a>
+
+ <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#peertube">
+ <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/%23peertube-on%20freenode-brightgreen.svg" alt="PeerTube Freenode IRC" />
+ </a>
+</p>
+
+<br />
+
+<p align="center">
+ <a href="https://peertube.cpy.re">
+ <img src="https://lutim.cpy.re/mRdBAdeD.png" alt="screenshot" />
+ </a>
+</p>
+
+## Demonstration
+
+Want to see it in action?
+
+ * Demonstration servers:
+ * [peertube.cpy.re](http://peertube.cpy.re)
+ * [peertube2.cpy.re](http://peertube2.cpy.re)
+ * [peertube3.cpy.re](http://peertube3.cpy.re)
+ * [Video](https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/f78a97f8-a142-4ce1-a5bd-154bf9386504)
+ to see what the "decentralization feature" looks like
+
+*Currently PeerTube is still in alpha (we plan to release a beta in march). Demonstration servers do not support public registration. If you really want to test PeerTube before the public release, here is a list of PeerTube servers: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/wiki#other-peertube-servers.*
+
+## Why
+
+We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion,
+Vimeo... with a centralized software. One organization alone may not have
+enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers.
+
+So we need to have a decentralized network of servers seeding videos (as
+[Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example). But it's not
+enough because one video could become famous and overload the server. It's the
+reason why we need to use a P2P protocol to limit the server load. Thanks to
+[WebTorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent), we can make P2P (thus
+BitTorrent) inside the web browser, as of today.