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A v2-aware client that also supported v1 and hybrid torrents would tick all boxes and be able to participate in multiple swarms (for the same torrent). The mai
by armitron 6y ago
A v2-aware client that also supported v1 and hybrid torrents would tick all boxes and be able to participate in multiple swarms (for the same torrent).
The main issue that I see is the existence of millions of torrents in private trackers that would have to be manually updated for v2.
Are people going to bother? I think not. So for me, v2 is practically a new-torrents-only affair.
- ehsankia 6y agoI think this is fine. Slow migration is often the right choice. The important part is to start early, and in a decade maybe the vast majority of torrents will be V2.
- oauea 6y agoThe sites could perform a bulk update for all their torrents if they so chose.
- danarmak 6y agoTo update you need the data so you can rehash it. A typical tracker only has the torrent files and would take a very long time and spend a lot of possibly expensive bandwidth to download all the tracked torrents. And some torrents may not be seeded all the time.
- bserge 6y agoThey often just have the magnet links. I haven't looked into how that works, but I think the complete data is only on the seeders' machines, and the torrent propagates through DHT.
- Cyph0n 6y agoPrivate trackers do not use magnet links afaik.
- 22c 6y agoIf nobody has the data, the torrent is effectively dead and most private trackers will remove it in time. If it's not dead, they can incentivize seeders to re-hash/re-upload a v2 compatible torrent if they really wanted to. Private trackers tend to gamify quite a few aspects of their sites (obvious example being the seed ratio itself).