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by HideousKojima 1837 days ago
Torrents are great and all but it's dependent on people seeding them, sci-hub/libgen is great because you don't have to worry about a download suddenly breaking because no one is seeding
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But they could just always be a seeder. Doesn’t that have the upsides of the existing solution plus resiliency?
Isn't scihub/libgen already backed by torrents? I'm confused.
Nope it was mostly direct download for the endusers with some ipfs in some places.