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Re:Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy by tamana on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:48AM (#11547289)
Digital objects that are torrentable are public goods. This includes media files and local machine software but not web services.
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Re:Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy by toomuchtodo on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:51AM (#11550066)
You could torrent a web service if the app was dockerized, the docker containers were part of the torrent file, and the underlying datastore (files or a DB) were also included.
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