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?


He’s a fascinating guy that has worked on a bunch of projects I wish I was smart and productive enough to have worked on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen