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This argument is moot when you're streaming some blockbuster movie, there will not be any rare chunks to speak of. The client could implement a threshold where
by andreasvc 13y ago
This argument is moot when you're streaming some blockbuster movie, there will not be any rare chunks to speak of. The client could implement a threshold where sequential downloading is only switched on when there are x number of seeders.
- steinnes 13y agoBut BitTorrent wasn't invented to stream movies.
- Blahah 13y agoWho cares what it was invented for: we can use it for this. If we only ever used tools as intended the world wouldn't have progressed very far.
- steinnes 13y agoI agree in spirit, but the idea of everyone starting at the same end of the download does indeed go against some of the core ideas of bit torrent. Personally I think maybe something should be built on top of bit torrent to accomplish this task. To me it's a case of being careful when re-engineering underlying protocols because of a higher level need. Anyway, it's a nice hack, but I kind of understand where the client developers who refuse to do this are coming from :-)
- ama729 13y agoOr even a "semi-sequential downloading", X% of the bytes are sequential (say to get smooth streaming), the others are normally downloaded.