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Why is any file hosting service ever a thing at all, when literally any file can simply be distributed via torrents?
by raincole 1mo ago
Why is any file hosting service ever a thing at all, when literally any file can simply be distributed via torrents?
- sgt101 1mo agoThere's a herding effect with torrents where popular things are quick to get, unpopular things may be very difficult to get, because the majority of users delete files to save space. I might host 3 or 4 models that I've downloaded recently, but I won't be hosting the 50 or so that I've tried in the last two years.
- deleted 1mo ago[deleted]
- debugnik 1mo agoAnd who seeds it? If you're going to pay a host to seed it, they might as well just provide HTTP and let you add them as a web seed to your torrent, which we could be doing already. But if you don't pay a host to seed it, either the host's business model won't play well with torrents, or there's no host and a torrent will rot.
- raincole 1mo ago(It was a retrospective question.)
- rbreve 1mo agoTorrents are unreliable, also for an agent or script it's easier to just do wget model