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?

  • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
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    4 hours ago

    I mean it still has a purpose? Don’t know where you’re going with this, do you have some grudge against BitTorrent we don’t know about?