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In my opinion their secure communication acts as a double-edge sword for WebRTC. Now one-to-many streaming is complicated since you cannot easily add a man-in-the-middle streaming server like you'd do in a normal setup. Trying to broadcast to >5 users on a Chrome tab really heats up my laptop.

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In fact, you can easily add a streaming server in the middle (and many-participant WebRTC servers do exactly this), it's just that you can't have it happen unintentionally.

Could you please elaborate? I've looked over the Kurento[1] Media Server page but I didn't find it that 'easy'. Would you use a tool alike or implement the negotiation yourself?

[1] http://doc-kurento.readthedocs.io/en/stable/introducing_kure...

Perhaps an easier example is Janus, such as their 2-way demo that forwards all media packets through the Janus server: https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/videocalltest.html

Or the more complex demo, for a video conference where all media is forwarded through the Janus server: https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/videoroomtest.html

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