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I don't think this is a fair description of the BitTorrent protocol. HTTP is only used for discovering peers; the data transfer is P2P using a custom protocol.

by wmf 3y ago

I don't think this is a fair description of the BitTorrent protocol. HTTP is only used for discovering peers; the data transfer is P2P using a custom protocol. (I'm ignoring optional extensions like HTTP seeding.)