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by thisisrobv 3890 days ago
+1 not sure where "to store the information in the DHT you'd have to attach it to a torrent" comes from.
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It comes from the fact that the Mainline DHT is specifically about BitTorrent nodes and who has which torrents. The client programs don't just pass information around willy-nilly.