[Marlinski]

it's been criminalized to hell by IP holders and hollywood. Such a shame they killed the best tech of the previous decade. Could have revolutionized how we distribute content, approach CDN and even streaming.

[exadeci]

So many countries still have data caps, even the supposedly 1st world countries.

Even without hollywood people wouldn't have wanted to use any platform that uses their data and battery/power to share to everyone else.

It's the main reason why torrenting platforms have introduced ratios and made it hard to get invited.

[harkinian]

In what way is the bittorrent protocol criminalized?

[yayr]

scheme 1: agents for copyright holders continuously scan for IP addresses who host copyrighted content and start legal actions.

scheme 2: criminal groups infect copyrighted content with malware to exploit downloaders of such content.

[harkinian]

Neither of those are against the bittorrent protocol itself. Lots of software like Ubuntu is legally available on bittorrent, and I've never seen anything done to restrict that.