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Is BitTorrent still relevant in the Modern Era? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone,

I recently came across an article on TorrentFreak about the BitTorrent protocol and found myself wondering if it has remained relevant in today's digital landscape. Given the rapid advancements in technology, I was curious to know if BitTorrent has been surpassed by a more efficient protocol, or if it continues to hold its ground (like I2P?).

Thank you for your insights!

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Most piracy is either two ancient methods that work perfectly of Usenet or BitTorrent. There is nothing wrong with these methods.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Usenet has many things wrong with it, NNTP is not at all designed for distributing large files, it's for propagating messages across servers. File integrity checks have to be tacked on for instance, and the few servers still serving binaries are commercial services that are vulnerable to copyright trolls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Thanks for explaining. I don’t use it.

Good to know

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Considering that USENET goes back to the 70s, and bittorrent was invented in 2001, one of these things is clearly ancient and the other isn’t.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

2001 was 24 years ago in 2 days. BitTorrent can drink.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I dislike this fact, because I very clearly remember when it was brand spanking new

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah and each torrent was its own separate window with no pause option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Haha yes! 20 little BitTorrent windows ticking along

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I remember when eDonkey and later eMule were brand spanking new... It took quite a while for BitTorrent to gain enough traction (and for me to get fast enough internet) for it to be better... (and, frankly, I still miss eMule's Kademlia network's peer to peer search capabilities...)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ed2k/kad are still kicking, I use mldonkey for that networks

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Yeah that’s pretty ancient to me. That’s like saying XP isn’t ancient

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

It's still newer than HTML, CSS, and Javascript.