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pid-1
1577 days ago
Look at bittorrent. While it's impossible to kill it, targeting agregation platforms definitely made the protocol immensely less relevant than it was 20 years ago.
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codebje
1577 days ago
BitTorrent made itself less relevant by relying on end to end networking and symmetrical links, neither of which panned out.
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Osiris
1576 days ago
Such as? The Pirate Bay still exists as do thousands of other websites listing torrents.
BitTorrent traffic went down as streaming services increased.
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