Re:Put.io
by Blahah on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @07:13AM
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Who cares what it was invented for: we can use it for this. If we only ever used tools as intended the world wouldn't have progressed very far.
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I agree in spirit, but the idea of everyone starting at the same end of the download does indeed go against some of the core ideas of bit torrent.
Personally I think maybe something should be built on top of bit torrent to accomplish this task. To me it's a case of being careful when re-engineering underlying protocols because of a higher level need.
Anyway, it's a nice hack, but I kind of understand where the client developers who refuse to do this are coming from :-)