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?
What does Steam use? Gotta be a torrent for games and dlc.
I know it can do something similar if another machine on your network has the same games installed, but I don’t know if they use bittorrent for the main system or even that network sharing dealie.
It’s something i wonder about sometimes, but never care enough to look up.