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rhcom2 on Jan 11, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Inside Story of BitTorrent Inc’s Collapse

I remember Blizzard using peer-to-peer to update their games. Any large download shared by many people could be a good use case.

kalleboo on Jan 12, 2017 [–]

For a long time, Spotify used P2P to distribute music, and Skype used P2P to break through NAT. Both of those dropped it though.

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