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There are non-"self-hostable" torrent clients?

• rahimnathwani 5y ago
  Yes, you can download torrents with Baidu Wangpan (https://pan.baidu.com/ https://pan.baidu.com/) which cannot be self-hosted. AWS S3 used to have torrent client (seed-only), which could not be self-hosted.
  • Arnavion 5y ago
    Seed-only clients that can't be self-hosted, I can understand, because what you care about is not the client but the infrastructure that the client runs on (network, etc). What's the use-case of Wangpan? I assume it's not "I don't want to torrent illegal things on my home network" because such a service could rat me out just as well.
    • rahimnathwani 5y ago
      Baidu Wangpan is a dropbox-like service, that has torrent download as a small feature. Imagine you want to stream a video file on your mobile, but: 1) The video file is only available via a torrent along with other files you don't want to watch right now, and 2) Your internet connection doesn't have great throughput, and 3) You will watch the file on a mobile device, so can compromise on resolution and compression. The easiest thing would be to download the torrent on Baidu Wangpan, and then stream the parts you want to your mobile device.