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Neat idea, but it seems like abuse of the torrent protocol. If peers don't grab chunks randomly then it partially defeats the purpose of bittorrent.
by shric 6y ago
Neat idea, but it seems like abuse of the torrent protocol. If peers don't grab chunks randomly then it partially defeats the purpose of bittorrent.
- antpls 6y agoStreaming services have shown that BitTorrent is practical for streaming in some setup too
- oh_sigh 6y agoEvery torrent client I've used recently has an "enable sequential download" option. The only torrents this would realistically affect are maybe ones where the seeder may go offline when a bunch of clients have been doing sequential downloads and no one has the final parts of the content.
- keyserzose 6y agoWhich would be the same as no one would have those random parts.