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> With bittorrent you need at least one seeder that is available long enough to feed the swarm (in decent time), during that time a lot of things can go wrong (
by stock_toaster 14y ago
> With bittorrent you need at least one seeder that is available long enough to feed the swarm (in decent time), during that time a lot of things can go wrong (if anything goes wrong when uploading to a free hosting service you just start over, nothing lost).
Don't most clients support web seeding[1] these days?
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Web_seeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Web_seed...
- tjoff 14y agoWell, would that be easier to do than just seed it yourself? (with the added risks mentioned above) I'm guessing that few hosting companies make that easy to do, since you often have to go through some form of queue to even get the ticket needed to download it.
- deno 14y agoThat’s actually pretty good way to bootstrap torrent anonymously. The issue is just keeping webseeds alive long enough, which can be tricky if the upload is fairly big.