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by palata 703 days ago
> But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Meaning that they contribute nothing back to the network. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work.

I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can totally imagine that they distribute the file 10 times while they watch it.
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fckgw 703 days ago
>I am not convinced. They contribute while watching, which is more than nothing by any metrics I can imagine. Depending on the situation, I can totally imagine that they distribute the file 10 times while they watch it.

How do you come to this conclusion? The average residential home upload speed is abysmal.

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ssl-3 703 days ago
I may be an outlier, but I have what I believe to be the cheapest plan that the singular viable ISP available to me has to offer. (It is a very large ISP.)

This comes with 10Mbps of upstream bandwidth.

And no, that's not a ton -- but it is substantially more than the bitrate of the h.265/HEVC films I may tend to watch.

If I were streaming with torrents, I would be able to give back more than I consume during the runtime of such a film.

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WithinReason 703 days ago
it's more than the average video bitrate
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myself248 703 days ago
Most home internet connections don't have enough upload bandwidth to do that.
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