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I know you do - I use your apps. But I think writing off torrents because companies filter them isn't a reason to do so. As long as they can download random e

I know you do - I use your apps. But I think writing off torrents because companies filter them isn't a reason to do so. As long as they can download random executables and run them, they'll be able to download torrents, either via .torrent files, magnet links, via a proxy or whatever method they figure out.

JohnTHaller 13y ago
Torrents themselves are blocked by most corporate firewalls (and many university ones). Adding torrent abilities to the PortableApps.com Platform, even if we custom wrote it to work with our app store, would encourage places to block our whole platform. Like it or not, even with all the legitimate uses torrent has, to many people it's about stolen software, stolen music, stolen movies, and porn.
- fredsted 13y ago
  >Adding torrent abilities to the PortableApps.com Platform, even if we custom wrote it to work with our app store, would encourage places to block our whole platform. >Like it or not, even with all the legitimate uses torrent has, to many people it's about stolen software, stolen music, stolen movies, and porn. I think that's a little far-fetched, nearly all open source projects utilize torrents for distribution with noone blocking them. Torrents are just the default way of providing high-speed software mirrors these days.
  - JohnTHaller 13y ago
    Lots of open source projects make torrents of their files available for download from their website. That's a different animal from building a torrent client into your app. The PortableApps.com Platform is how lots of our users get their apps now, right from the app store or via the automatic app updater, and that all takes place via HTTP. In order to properly use torrents, we'd need to build a client right into the app store so users can use it but still one-click update/install their apps. But, having a torrent client built into the platform would encourage companies to block the platform itself. And, it would leave our users unable to update their apps inside organizations that block torrenting at the network level.

JohnTHaller 13y ago

Torrents themselves are blocked by most corporate firewalls (and many university ones). Adding torrent abilities to the PortableApps.com Platform, even if we custom wrote it to work with our app store, would encourage places to block our whole platform. Like it or not, even with all the legitimate uses torrent has, to many people it's about stolen software, stolen music, stolen movies, and porn.

fredsted 13y ago
>Adding torrent abilities to the PortableApps.com Platform, even if we custom wrote it to work with our app store, would encourage places to block our whole platform. >Like it or not, even with all the legitimate uses torrent has, to many people it's about stolen software, stolen music, stolen movies, and porn. I think that's a little far-fetched, nearly all open source projects utilize torrents for distribution with noone blocking them. Torrents are just the default way of providing high-speed software mirrors these days.
- JohnTHaller 13y ago
  Lots of open source projects make torrents of their files available for download from their website. That's a different animal from building a torrent client into your app. The PortableApps.com Platform is how lots of our users get their apps now, right from the app store or via the automatic app updater, and that all takes place via HTTP. In order to properly use torrents, we'd need to build a client right into the app store so users can use it but still one-click update/install their apps. But, having a torrent client built into the platform would encourage companies to block the platform itself. And, it would leave our users unable to update their apps inside organizations that block torrenting at the network level.