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+# PeTube
+
+Prototype of a decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (bittorent) directly in the web browser with [webtorrent](https://github.com/feross/webtorrent).
+
+[![js-standard-style](https://cdn.rawgit.com/feross/standard/master/badge.svg)](https://github.com/feross/standard)
+
+## Features
+
+- [ ] Join a network
+  - [X] Generate a RSA key
+  - [X] Ask for the friend list of other pods and make friend with them
+  - [ ] Get the list of the videos owned by a pod when making friend with it
+  - [ ] Post the list of its own videos when making friend with another pod
+- [X] Upload a video
+  - [X] Seed the video
+  - [X] Send the meta data to all other friends
+- [X] Remove the video
+- [X] List the videos
+- [X] Search a video name (local index)
+- [X] View the video in an HTML5 page with webtorrent
+- [ ]  Manage user accounts
+  - [ ] Inscription
+  - [ ] Connection
+  - [ ] Account rights (upload...)
+- [ ] Make the network auto sufficient (eject bad pods etc)
+- [ ] Manage API breaks
+- [ ] Add "DDOS" security (check if a pod don't send too many requests for example)
+
+## Front compatibility
+
+  * Chromium
+  * Firefox (>= 42 for MediaSource support)
+
+
+## Usage
+
+### Dependencies
+
+  * NodeJS >= 0.12
+  * Grunt-cli (npm install -g grunt-cli)
+  * OpenSSL (cli)
+  * MongoDB
+  * xvfb-run (for electron)
+
+### Test It!
+
+    $ git clone https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
+    $ cd PeopleTube
+    # npm install -g electron-prebuilt
+    $ npm install
+    $ npm start
+
+### Test with many 3 fresh nodes
+    $ scripts/clean_test.sh
+    $ scripts/run_servers.sh
+
+Then you will can access to the three nodes at http://localhost:900{1,2,3}. If you call "make friends" on http://localhost:9002, the pod 2 and 3 will become friends. Then if you call "make friends" on http://localhost:9001 it will become friend with the pod 2 and 3 (check the configuration files). Then the pod will communicate with each others. If you add a video on the pod 3 you'll can see it on the pod 1 and 2 :)
+
+## Why
+
+We can't build a FOSS video streaming alternatives to YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo... with a centralized software.
+One organization alone cannot have enought money to pay bandwith and video storage of its server.
+So we need to have a decentralized network (as [Diaspora](https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora) for example).
+But it's not enought 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 right now.
+
+## Architecture
+
+### Backend
+
+  * The backend whould be a REST API
+  * Servers would communicate with each others with it
+    * Each server of a network has a list of all other servers of the network
+    * When a new installed server wants to join a network, it just has to get the list of the servers via one server and tell them "Hi I'm new in the network, communicate with me too please"
+    * Each server has its own users who query it (search videos, where the torrent URI of this specific video is...)
+    * Server begins to seed and sends to the other servers of the network the video information (name, short description, torrent URI) of a new uploaded video
+    * Each server has a RSA key to encrypt and sign communications with other servers
+  * A server is a tracker responsible for all the videos uploaded in it
+  * Even if nobody watches a video, it is seeded by the server where the video was uploaded
+  * A server would run webtorrent-hybrid to be a bridge with webrtc/standard bittorrent protocol
+  * A network can live and evolve by expelling bad pod (with too many downtimes for example)
+
+See the ARCHITECTURE.md for more informations. Do not hesitate to give your opinion :)
+
+Here are some simple schemes:
+
+![Decentralized](http://lutim.cpy.re/aV2pawRz)
+
+![Watch a video](http://lutim.cpy.re/AlOeoVPi)
+
+![Watch a video P2P](http://lutim.cpy.re/fb0JH6C3)
+
+![Join a network](http://lutim.cpy.re/ijuCgmpI)
+
+![Many networks](http://lutim.cpy.re/iz8mXHug)
+
+### Frontend
+
+There would be a simple frontend (Bootstrap, AngularJS) but since the backend is a REST API anybody could build a frontend (Web application, desktop application...).
+The backend uses bittorent protocol, so users could use their favorite bittorent client to download/play the video after having its torrent URI.