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by oefrha 778 days ago
No. With BitTorrent, I can tell a client to go fetch this torrent or hash (magnet link) and it can do that without any specific hardcoded server. Centralized trackers help but there’s always the DHT. With git you need to give the client an exact host, which can be gone for any number of reasons.
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So then just like with music and movies, I'll get letters from law firms for hosting illegal git repos via BitTorrent.