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I haven't used torrent in a long time. Does it have any other usecase than piracy?
by your_challenger 4y ago
I haven't used torrent in a long time. Does it have any other usecase than piracy?
- sdfjkl 4y agoYup, downloading stuff reliably over lousy internet connections (packet loss, high latency, intermittent uptime). HTTP really sucks with that.
- pabs3 4y agoLinux distros use it for distributing their installers.
- isaacremuant 4y agoLibreOffice as well and it's a joy to use because they tend to be very fast downloads.
- MayeulC 4y agoIt's really good for distributing huge datasets, stuff that can take multiple days to download. It's also very good for using maximum available bandwidth efficiently, and have downloaders contribute bandwidth. Linux isos are frequently pointed out as a use-case. I've seen it used for distributing neural network weights recently (stable diffusion and others). Rainbow tables and password lists too: https://freerainbowtables.com/ https://freerainbowtables.com/ I have used it to efficiently distribute big files (disk images) over hundreds of computers in LANs. Computers on local switches can exchange data with each other, and computers can come and go on the network.
- zaik 4y agoOpenStreetMap is such a huge dataset, for example: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ https://planet.openstreetmap.org/
- talideon 4y agoPlenty! If you have largish binary assets of any kind that need to be distributed across multiple nodes, it's fantastic. For instance, if you're in the infrastructure group in a company, and you need to distribute VM images around the place, it's great.