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Yeah, it's a clever idea but torrents are basically just content hashes, so they can't be updated by nature. In fact TPB was already not serving torrent files
by Cushman 12y ago
Yeah, it's a clever idea but torrents are basically just content hashes, so they can't be updated by nature.
In fact TPB was already not serving torrent files in large part; every torrent with more than a handful of peers is stored as a magnet link, which literally is just a content hash. I'm positive there's something rather clever to be done there, but we can't put it into a torrent.
- realusername 12y agoActually that's not true anymore : http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html.
- Cushman 12y agoThat's not updating the content of a torrent, that's updating a torrent file given a URL and a signature. It's not even BitTorrent, more like embedded RSS. Doesn't really help us out here.
- makomk 12y agoThe nice thing about BitTorrent is that if you point the new .torrent file at the same location as the old one, your client should incrementally download just the new parts. All you need is a way to distribute and switch over to new .torrent files automatically - something like BEP 0039, for example.