> HTTP is an established and formalized protocol standard by the IETF. > Bittorrent is a protocol designed by the company named Bittorrent and there is a large

> HTTP is an established and formalized protocol standard by the IETF. > Bittorrent is a protocol designed by the company named Bittorrent and there is a large amount of variations and extensions in implementations and clients. Extensions are in many cases standarized. There's a lot of variations in HTTP as well. One important thing that's missed is that a magnet link also contains a hash of the torrent file, which points to a specific file. Over HTTP, everyone across the network connection can change the contents of the file and there's no automated way of detecting that.