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?
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.