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Re:Magnet link generator by riffraff on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:33PM (#19235312)
> Magnet links are an alternative way to download and share bittorrent files

but magnet URIs are not torrent specific, are they?

I'm fairly sure I'd used them in some other p2p apps years ago.

AFAIR, they are just content identifiers, and could work with any content-addressable system that wanted to support them (IPFS, Gnutella or whatever).

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Re:Magnet link generator by JeremyBanks on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:18PM (#19235531)
The way BitTorrent uses magnet URLs isn't quite semantically consistent with the way other P2P networks have used them. They probably should have just picked a different scheme.
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