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How would this work well? I kinda thought that the whole benefit of torrents was being able to parallelize the downloads in chunks across the entirety of the fi
by kamranjon 1y ago
How would this work well? I kinda thought that the whole benefit of torrents was being able to parallelize the downloads in chunks across the entirety of the file - wouldn't this negate that?
- netsharc 1y ago(Ab)using torrents for sequential watching is not an original idea, probably the thought is "doesn't matter, I get to watch the movie". I think the original concept of torrents is to ensure the chunks with the least amount of copies in the network get duplicated earliest (in worst case there's only 1 copy, if that peer goes offline you won't get a complete download). But this concept would be interesting to see when people stop watching.. if 1000 clients have the first 20% of the movie but only 600 have more, it means many quit watching at 20% of the movie..
- Dylan16807 1y agoParallelize in chunks, yes. Across the entirety of the file, not as much. If you work in parallel across a 50MB range it works about as well.