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author: jeremy-kauffman
title: RPI Hackers Meet LBRY (Notes and Slides from RCOS Presentation)
date: '2015-11-17 01:29:07'
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Last Friday, we had the pleasure of presenting LBRY to [RCOS](http://rcos.rpi.edu/), the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software. Jimmy was a member of this group when he attended RPI, and I certainly would have if I have known it had existed! In the years since I attended RPI it's grown from a handful of students to this:

![RCOS 2015](http://rcos.rpi.edu/site-media/rcos/images/spring2015-group.jpg)

### Our Slides

We gave a short overview of LBRY aimed at an audience that would already know BitTorrent, Bitcoin, and programming. On the slide that shows how LBRY works from a user's perspective, we gave a live streaming demo.

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eS1nFGjbPHOt_B8aMVqrylvYNnSRm2J_vI7BACztmVY/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000" frameborder="0" width="760" height="456" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe>


### Reaction
The RCOS attendees expressed a lot of interest in LBRY and asked some great questions like:

* How is this different from [Sia Coin](https://sia.tech/)? (Sia makes promises we do not, and our naming/design is focused on discovery. We have a clearer path to traction by extending BitTorrent.)
* What can you do to keep content infringing on copyright off the network? (We cannot remove it, but we cannot emphasize enough that this is a terrible idea and that you are liable if you do this. We are allocating a lot of resources to getting right's holders on board.)
* Can you be sure LBRY's naming system will result in right's holders owning names? (You can never be certain of anything, but we think economic theory sure makes it likely.)
* How does LBRY extending BitTorrent work? (Metadata stored in LBRY blockchain maps to a torrent hash.)
* I've literally never been as excited about anything as this in my entire life. (Thanks, Jimmy's brother.)

We were also able to listen to a number of presentations by students, with the most interesting being [Pandamonium](https://github.com/mwdewey/pandamonium), a "network emulator for testing chaotic environments". In our estimation, one could certainly test chaos with this device indeed.

Additional thanks to [Mukkai Krishnamoorthy](http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~moorthy/) who hosted us.
