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Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by the8472 on Friday January 07, 2022 @05:06AM (#29837314)
> file sharing: Your premise is incorrect, you can stream them as well.

Of sorts, when there's enough excess bandwidth available that fairness doesn't really matter. By design bittorrent randomizes download order to improve the ability of peers to be of mutual interest to enable tit-for-tat.

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Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by Semaphor on Friday January 07, 2022 @05:10AM (#29837346)
That is possible, I have never used this feature. Though I’d guess that something new or old enough for it to matter, can’t download fast enough to keep up with a stream anyway.
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Re:A curated list of warez and piracy links by hsbauauvhabzb on Friday January 07, 2022 @05:43AM (#29837556)
If enough pirates cared about streaming, there would be better p2p streaming. But bandwidth is cheap and movies take minutes.
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