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		nailer on Aug 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2 Perhaps because a lot of content is streamed live? Streaming wants us to download A, B, C, D just in time. Bottorrent (simplified) wants me to download piece P, you to download piece G, then I get P from you and you get G from me. There are Bottorrent streaming apps but they kind of mess with the nature of BT. OTOH things like RPM/Deb/WindowsUpdate etc it would make great sense.

freeone3000 on Aug 8, 2017 [–]

World of Warcraft (used to?) patch with Bittorrent.

pdimitar on Aug 12, 2017 | [–]

All Blizzard games make heavy use of BT-like technology for downloading patches to this day. It's extremely efficient. A 300MB patch to Overwatch downloading with the max speed my ISP is giving me (100 Mbps). It's a matter of 30-40 seconds.

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