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Pretty cool on the surface, but 2 things I can think of right now that mostly kills it for me (and maybe many others). 1) the things one usually use Bittorrent
by skeledrew 3y ago
Pretty cool on the surface, but 2 things I can think of right now that mostly kills it for me (and maybe many others). 1) the things one usually use Bittorrent for tend to need the complete files to be all there to be useful, and internet speeds is a limiter in that regard. 2) seeder count tends to break down pretty quickly, as people delete or even just move the files elsewhere for whatever reason, so availability falls.
- elevenz 3y agoA file index tool can be add to torrent clients, letting it scan all files in a user-selected folder and tag them with torrent info. Then how can it find the torrent info for a given file? Maybe we need a central server, maybe some hacker will invent a distributed reverse torrent search network, to list what playlists has a specific song. I don't know if someone has already invented this. I think it can be the final answer to any distributed file system driven by user uploads.
- WhiteOwlLion 3y agoAren't torrents block based so file boundaries are not observed without hacks?
- rakoo 3y agotorrents are file-based but in v1 the edge of a file doesn't map with the edge of a piece, so you can't easily find file's hashes. In v2 this is solved and it is possible to easily know the hash of each file in the torrent, so you can search for it in other torrents
- skeledrew 3y agoIPFS has resolved the indexing issue, with content addressing. Overall I'd say it has all the pros of bittorrent and fewer of the cons, from a technical perspective. However it's more complex, which may be a reason why it isn't more adopted.