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Most game file transfers are torrent based, so if you've ever played an MMO you've been involved in a torrent. Definitely not piracy. This type of torrent tran

• sshine 4y ago
  Does the App Store prohibit the use of a custom torrent client for downloading game data? This is a legitimate use-case for torrenting, but also one that does not warrant general-purpose torrent clients in the App Store.
  • UnpossibleJim 4y ago
    I'm just going off of the statement %99.99999whatever of torrent use is for illegal purposes, which is a BS statistic.
    • malux85 4y ago
      We were monitoring 18.5 million torrents, over 292 million IP addresses, it took a Cassandra cluster of 18 nodes just to store this information. It was writing 18,000 writes a second, 24/7. This information was not pulled off pirate sites, it was sucked out of the distributed hash table directly. I singlehandedly wrote the code that did all of this, I have first hand knowledge of the entire system. Part of my job was also to analyse this data, I spent a year writing reports, clustering this info, generating realtime demand graphs and segmenting different media types. Just because you cherry pick some data about games distributed with bittorrent doesn't mean you can extrapolate entire network conclusions from that - that's first grade BS statistics right there Piracy was probably higher than 99.99999%. It's the vast, vast, vast majority
  • WorldMaker 4y ago
    I've seen indirect evidence of custom torrent clients in games in the App Store. More directly: Resilio Sync is in the App Store and uses a variation of torrent tech for personal file sync. It can't be easily used as a general-purpose torrent client with its focus on personal sync.