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?
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