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Re:BitTorrent v2 by k__ on Monday September 07, 2020 @05:10PM (#24402910)
"there are a few company-made swarms hosted on industrial servers that keep everyone up and alive, so that the thing gives the impression the 'P2P' network does work"

What about the trackers?

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Re:BitTorrent v2 by simple_phrases on Monday September 07, 2020 @05:14PM (#24402952)
DHT makes trackers simply an aggregation and redundancy measure.
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Re:BitTorrent v2 by joenathanone on Monday September 07, 2020 @05:17PM (#24402985)
It should, but in practice it doesn't. I've had torrents that I left sitting for weeks not being able to complete, until I added a list of trackers to them and found some seeders with 100% of the torrent.
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Re:BitTorrent v2 by nnt38 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:53AM (#24407159)
Just because not everyone is using DHT does not mean that it doesnt solve the issue.
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Re:BitTorrent v2 by k__ on Monday September 07, 2020 @06:19PM (#24403425)
Same here.

BT only worked for new popular stuff.

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Re:BitTorrent v2 by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Monday September 07, 2020 @06:50PM (#24403607)
I've yet to find something that's truly unavailable. Sometimes it takes a few different searches on different sites but I've always found the obscure Linux distros I've been looking for.
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