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How did bittorrent fail to become essential technology? (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by avuton@infosec.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

What are you even rambling about? Torrent has been essential.

IPFS, as well as many other P2P sharing technologies, on the other hand...

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For nerdy nerds like us a torrent client isn't anything complicated. Regulating up and downstream bandwidth to personal preference isn't complicated. Managing torrents to seed and not isn't complicated. For your Average Joe though...

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Plus, Average Joe doesn't have port forwarding set up to punch a P2P hole thru his IPv4 NAT router

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

But his ISP router will have UPNP enabled which does it for him.