3 ms·
> enough people seeding the .torrent file format, and clients, include explicit support for HTTP mirrors serving the same files that's distributed via P2P.
by SSLy 4y ago
> enough people seeding
the .torrent file format, and clients, include explicit support for HTTP mirrors serving the same files that's distributed via P2P.
- yamtaddle 4y agoArchive.org does this with theirs. If there are no seeds (super common with their torrents—IDK, maybe a few popular files of theirs do have lots of seeds and that saves them a lot of bandwidth, but sometimes I wonder why they bother) then it'll basically do the same thing as downloading from their website. I've seen it called a "web seed". Only place I've seen use it, but evidently the functionality is there.
- yencabulator 4y agoI'm pretty much convinced the people at Docker have explicitly made their "registry" not be just downloadable static files purely to enable the rent-seeking behavior we are seeing here...