Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm...
by vesinisa on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:04PM
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Are you serious? This is the original purpose of BitTorrent. It was not invented as a "warez technology", but as a way for service providers to save on bandwidth costs when serving huge files. Back when BitTorrent spec was written hosting a collection of large datasets like this meant paying thousands of bucks in hosting expenses, making it prohibitively expensive for most independent developers.
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