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rapfaria
3032 days ago
Does it seriously download a 129MB file just by opening the page?
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CyberDildonics
3032 days ago
Ha yeah. Everyone pointed that out the first time this came up and I guess he ignored the feedback.
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QasimK
3031 days ago
I actually find it seriously impressive. It demonstrates it works for you
right now
, and it works seamlessly!
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yjftsjthsd-h
3031 days ago
It
is
impressive, and in a sense it's a very... effective... demo. The problem is that not all of us are in a position to spend that much bandwidth by accident.
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mook
3031 days ago
It's impressive, but it doesn't necessarily actually download the file from webtorrent peers. It will happily do HTTP streaming, instead.
It works fine for me even though my browser is configured to block third party traffic by default.
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QasimK
3031 days ago
Ah, it's a bit misleading then
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agumonkey
3031 days ago
chunk by chunk, and it's kinda the purpose, maybe they should have a "ready ? go" button ..
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