When bittorrent was released, I saw the technological aspects as groundbreaking, thinking it would be repurposed for much more than ISO downloads and mass media distribution. How did the technology not become a more popular way of distributing via crowdsourcing large community datasets, such as openstreetmaps, or something like distribution of Android rom updates, when the costs of distribution are so expensive?

  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    39·
    10 hours ago

    Before Youtube allowed long video uploads and before video Podcasts were a thing, I remember some early tech creators were creating long form videos around 2004-2005 and they would distribute episodes via BitTorrent, since it was most cost effective for them.

      • jimmy90@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        yes the DHT and tree-hashing distribution system will be the essential backbone of many other fully distributed P2P projects hopefully