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Aren't they torrents?

• manishsharan 10y ago
  The news article mentions Premier league and other TV networks . I am guessing that these kodi boxes are being used to consume live TV content or TV shows. A day's worth of shows in high resoution could consume upwards of 4GB. Why would anyone seed that ?
  • ake1 10y ago
    i seed about that much per hour...not using the bandwidth for anything else so no reason not to.
  • aembleton 10y ago
    I guess you only need one person to do it, and then all of the consumer Kodi boxes will also be seeding.
    • rhino369 10y ago
      Does live(ish) bittorrent streaming work?
      • stplsd 10y ago
        Yes, it does. Most popular bit-torrent p2p streaming solution now is Acestream. You can check it yourself. http://arenavision.in/ http://arenavision.in/ http://torrent-tv.ru/channels.php http://torrent-tv.ru/channels.php However, I doubt that 'fully loaded' Kodi boxes uses it, most likely it use simple m3u streams harvested from internets.
        • rhino369 10y ago
          I didn't know acestream was p2p. I think I may have used it one or twice. Very cool.
  • ukyrgf 10y ago
    If they're hooked into a BitTorrent client, aren't they seeding as well?
• mod 10y ago
  No--streams, I believe. (As in, video served from a web server)