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by no_time 1672 days ago
A major browser supporting torrents would be a disaster for public torrent culture. Since everyone closes their browsers, people would seed substantially less. I have a theory that a good chunk of people seeding any given torrent on a public tracker are doing it unintentionally.

EDIT: closes their browser is a bad way to phrase it. The problem is that the fact that they are seeding would be more in their face instead of hidden away in a notification icon on hover.

I wonder if intellectually "property" groups thought of this playing out.

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> a good chunk of people seeding any given torrent on a public tracker are doing it unintentionally.

a person i know (totally not me) only seeds the rarer things. for more popular stuff they only seed for a couple of days.