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I guess...the question is...who? Surely people have to pay to keep these peers just running. 3.1 million is how many millions of dollars in infra per month? I g

I guess...the question is...who? Surely people have to pay to keep these peers just running. 3.1 million is how many millions of dollars in infra per month? I guess it's distributed amongst millions or thousands of people, sure, or may be most of them are bots.

Nemo_bis 1y ago
It only takes 17000 bittorrent users with 100-200 old torrents each in their clients to get here: > it peaked at about 1.7 million distinct torrents across 3.1 million peers Most people don't regularly prune their torrent library.