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Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by synctext on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @11:36AM (#17304059)
It duplicates most features of libtorrent.org; but requires a server. Therefore, a comparison to wget misses the 17 year old Bittorrent protocol.
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Re:Dragonfly: Alibaba P2P file distribution system by nickpsecurity on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @01:07PM (#17305001)
Exactly. They should be comparing their P2P protocol to the whatever is currently the best of open-source, P2P libraries.
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