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It is a client/server system, but pulling from $n hosts instead of just 1, spreading out the load and also downtime risk across all $n hosts. And the reason I m
by mdaniel 4y ago
It is a client/server system, but pulling from $n hosts instead of just 1, spreading out the load and also downtime risk across all $n hosts. And the reason I mentioned the "ratio currency" is your use of the word "tolerated" here: BitTorrent isn't the mafia, it's just a protocol that offers the ability to share pieces back to the Internet. As another concrete example, aria2c (https://github.com/aria2/aria2#readme https://github.com/aria2/aria2#readme) behaves similarly: using BT to download, but then exiting without attempting to seed anything
- palata 4y ago> It is a client/server system, but pulling from $n hosts instead of just 1, spreading out the load and also downtime risk across all $n hosts. Well the point of peer to peer is that peers share while they download. Otherwise, if everyone only downloads, then it doesn't really get distributed. Also I meant client/server in opposition to p2p. Many non-p2p systems "on the cloud" spread the load and downtime risk across machines, that is independent from the p2p part. > using BT to download, but then exiting without attempting to seed anything I am not saying that you should keep sharing after it is downloaded. But typically BT clients "force" you to share while downloading. > And the reason I mentioned the "ratio currency" is your use of the word "tolerated" here: BitTorrent isn't the mafia, it's just a protocol that offers the ability to share pieces back to the Internet. Sure, sorry for my english, not my mothertongue :-). I know it is not the mafia, and I know it is a protocol. I used the word "tolerated" to ask whether or not, in practice, that gets you banned.