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stavros on Jan 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Inside Story of BitTorrent Inc’s Collapse

Not only efficient, but also supports file integrity, resuming, parallelization, etc. It's a fantastic protocol.

abricot on Jan 12, 2017 [–]

Exactly - I live in an area where lots of people have 50+ Mb symmetric connections, and BitTorrent gave us all a dream that we could all use those connections without everything having to be transferred over the backbone.

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