our primary source of content for personal videos, i.e. vlogs, personal recordings, etc.
so, PureVidz is not just going to be movies and series?
you guys are going even further than that?
Yes the scope of our project was never just movies and TV although its a great starting place to gain traction in terms of a user base and community.
One more comment - does this mean the ipfs traffic on this would be limited to people providing content? I dont know if it's an issue for safety that this ipfs would be just limited to vidz users and I think might be easier targeted than a much larger network where vidz content could hide among much other. My biggest concern is privacy with easy to track direct connections torrents have. Unfortunately I'm only mostly aware of storj and sia and not ipfs/swarm so far. I have little trust for ethereum security and sia is a design praised by extremely difficult to please cryptographers including fluffypony with data sharding and everything. The beauty there is that the network would be only small part of larger network, the files are not only encrypted but broken up in nonsense pieces among many upload providers giving them plausible deniability of knowing they were complicit in something illegal. Ok, last comment. I'm stupidly super excited about this. I thought I'd have to code this myself, but I'd rather just be a user. I wish you the best of luck and fortune.
Since our system is intended to support both WebTorrents and IPFS what format the uploader chooses is up to them. The reason we're making the changes we are is to basically under go a heavy test of IPFS with our current uploaders to see how it holds up. Whether they choose to keep uploading in that format or default back to WebTorrents is entirely up to them. We're not forcing anyone to comply. I'd mention you can run IPFS with a VPN. Just as we'd expect anyone submitting a web torrent to also be seeding their torrent, we'd expect anyone submitting an IPFS hash to be running a node seeding it / with the content pinned as well as such will be the typical standards of moderation approval in verifying if it works or not.
PureVidz is about providing meta data and useful indexing to arbitrary data on the web in this case WebTorrents (magnet links) and IPFS hashes although we're more specifically geared towards video based content.