When bittorrent was released, I saw the technological aspects as groundbreaking, thinking it would be repurposed for much more than ISO downloads and mass media distribution. How did the technology not become a more popular way of distributing via crowdsourcing large community datasets, such as openstreetmaps, or something like distribution of Android rom updates, when the costs of distribution are so expensive?
A lot of stuff uses bittorrent for file transfers behind the scenes these days.
What does Steam use? Gotta be a torrent for games and dlc.
Steam allows P2P transfers if the machines are on the same LAN. Like if your desktop has a game installed, and you start to install it on your Steam Deck, it will ask if you want to download it directly from your PC.
Yeah that’s really cool. I discovered that with one of my games.
I know it can do something similar if another machine on your network has the same games installed, but I don’t know if they use bittorrent for the main system or even that network sharing dealie.
It’s something i wonder about sometimes, but never care enough to look up.
I know blizz used it with battlenet years ago