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Bittorrent's DHT is used that way now, it's probably the biggest public DHT deployment in existence, all a magnet link is at it's core is magnet:?xt=urn:btih:<i

Bittorrent's DHT is used that way now, it's probably the biggest public DHT deployment in existence, all a magnet link is at it's core is magnet:?xt=urn:btih:<infohash>, so just having an infohash of a torrent is enough for you to get its content. Of course, there's also IPFS, Zeronet and Freenet which all address this exact issue in slightly different ways, all more web-targetted.

djsumdog 10y ago
I thought Zeronet used IPFS underneath?
- problems 10y ago
  I believe it's an entirely separate network, not DHT based like IPFS though, but they've done a lot of cool work on the client side of things to allow user accounts and stuff.