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If BitTorrent is so great why isn’t it used more today for file transfers vs hosted storage? Also it is mostly used for piracy because authorities cannot shut d
by m3kw9 5y ago
If BitTorrent is so great why isn’t it used more today for file transfers vs hosted storage? Also it is mostly used for piracy because authorities cannot shut down a decentralized system.
- ayyy 5y agoIt is. Blizzard has been using it for years: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader This company is new and is using it as a CDN: https://www.peer5.com/ https://www.peer5.com/ Bittorrent is everywhere, just like Linux, and you mostly don't notice it.
- KptMarchewa 5y agoBlizzard was been using it for few years, and does not for 8 years now.
- deepsun 5y agoBecause browsers (except only Opera, it's Norwegian) don't want to turn on built-in torrent downloader, only because they know they'd got troubles from RIAA folks. There are some websites that offer downloads through torrents, like linux distros.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoDoesn't the Windows update system use some form of torrents for faster downloads?