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> But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Meaning that they contribute nothing back to the network. If everyone (or a l
by palata 2y ago
> But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Meaning that they contribute nothing back to the network. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work.
I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can totally imagine that they distribute the file 10 times while they watch it.
- myself248 2y agoMost home internet connections don't have enough upload bandwidth to do that.
- fckgw 2y ago>I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can totally imagine that they distribute the file 10 times while they watch it. How do you come to this conclusion? The average residential home upload speed is abysmal.
- WithinReason 2y agoit's more than the average video bitrate
- ssl-3 2y agoI may be an outlier, but I have what I believe to be the cheapest plan that the singular viable ISP available to me has to offer. (It is a very large ISP.) This comes with 10Mbps of upstream bandwidth. And no, that's not a ton -- but it is substantially more than the bitrate of the h.265/HEVC films I may tend to watch. If I were streaming with torrents, I would be able to give back more than I consume during the runtime of such a film.