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> Magnet links are an alternative way to download and share bittorrent files but magnet URIs are not torrent specific, are they? I'm fairly sure I'd used them
by riffraff 8y ago
> Magnet links are an alternative way to download and share bittorrent files
but magnet URIs are not torrent specific, are they?
I'm fairly sure I'd used them in some other p2p apps years ago.
AFAIR, they are just content identifiers, and could work with any content-addressable system that wanted to support them (IPFS, Gnutella or whatever).
- JeremyBanks 8y agoThe way BitTorrent uses magnet URLs isn't quite semantically consistent with the way other P2P networks have used them. They probably should have just picked a different scheme.
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