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?

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    9 hours ago

    Thanks and yes I’m comfortable with English as my first language. I was trying to post my comment with respect for OP. A QWERTY keyboard has the U and I together, my phone keyboard sucks for sure.

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      Totally off topic, but I read a classic author’s murder mystery as a kid, Doyle or Agatha or whoever, and a clue was a mistyped B for N, because they’re together on the keyboard. For 40 years I’ve been noting such errors. “Ah! OP meant to type ‘U’.” :)