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I don't believe BT will truly take off until web seeding is functional in all clients and I can use (a site | series of sites) to make a torrent of an existing
by mdaniel 4y ago
I don't believe BT will truly take off until web seeding is functional in all clients and I can use (a site | series of sites) to make a torrent of an existing thing. There was such a site (whose cute URL escapes me) where one could plug in a URL, it would download and cook a .torrent file but with the web seeds pointed at the source, and from that point forward others could get the cached version and the process was bootstrapped
I was also saddened by AWS dropping torrent support from their S3 API because that's one more easy way that folks could provide torrent bootstrapping "for free"
- killingtime74 4y agoTake off? It's unfortunately waning. Used to be 35% of all internet traffic https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-is-still-the-king-of-upstream-internet-traffic-but-for-how-long-220304/ https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-is-still-the-king-of-ups...
- adastra22 4y agoMostly because of TV streaming services though. I wonder how much BT is of consumer backbone usage.