Thanks @ruwan for this nice explainer video of DLive. We're currently discussing recording/streaming options for the Philly Steem Meetup and @hypnopreneur pointed me to this post. Nice to see a that Austin has a thriving Steem community!

Anyways, at the beginning you call DLive a "decentralized streaming platform". Perhaps, I don't understand DLive's architecture, but to me it seems entirely centralized. The source code is not open and the videos / streams are not deposited via an open storage / file transfer protocol. The persistence of DLive recordings and the availability of the service is entirely dependent upon @dlive startup.

So I'm not really sure if streaming via DLive is any different than posting a YouTube livestream link on Steem in terms of centralization. In both cases, the voting is decentralized via Steem, but the actual content (the video) is provided by a centralized service. Correct me if I'm wrong...