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Re:Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 by palata on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:02AM (#41035263)
> But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Meaning that they contribute nothing back to the network. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work.

I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can totally imagine that they distribute the file 10 times while they watch it.

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Re:Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 by myself248 on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:47AM (#41035765)
Most home internet connections don't have enough upload bandwidth to do that.
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Re:Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 by fckgw on Monday July 22, 2024 @12:21PM (#41036191)
>I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can totally imagine that they distribute the file 10 times while they watch it.

How do you come to this conclusion? The average residential home upload speed is abysmal.

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Re:Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 by ssl-3 on Monday July 22, 2024 @02:08PM (#41037551)
I may be an outlier, but I have what I believe to be the cheapest plan that the singular viable ISP available to me has to offer. (It is a very large ISP.)

This comes with 10Mbps of upstream bandwidth.

And no, that's not a ton -- but it is substantially more than the bitrate of the h.265/HEVC films I may tend to watch.

If I were streaming with torrents, I would be able to give back more than I consume during the runtime of such a film.

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Re:Stremio OS Is Now Available for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 by WithinReason on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:28PM (#41036999)
it's more than the average video bitrate
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